beardie
/ˈbɪədi
/adjective (beardier, beardiest) informal, derogatory
(Of a man) having a beard: in the year of beardy hipsters, he looks nearly a decade out of fashion...
- In the 6th Century, a big beardy, Anglo Saxon man founded a little village on the River Trent.
- "I'm not a green, beardy, self-congratulatory environmental campaigner," he says.
- The stereotype of the beardy academic, dressed in ill-fitting corduroy and locked away in his ivory tower, endures.
noun (also beardie) (plural beardies)
1British informal, derogatory A bearded man, especially one regarded as lacking in style: the cartoons show him as a mad beardie...
- Real ale is not all about beardies with sandals.
- Poets were pop stars, now they're weird beardies in bondage to an ancient craft that nobody deigns to understand.
- So the smooth ones, not the beardies, are those who decided to do something other than accept nature's default condition.
2 informal A bearded collie: expect to be greeted with a bounce when you meet a beardie...
- Beardies also love to race around and play with each other and other dogs and will often appear very overpowering.
- Lean and active, Beardies are strongly made and cover the ground with the minimum of effort.
- The Bearded Collie or beardie is the traditional dog of the Scottish shepherd, but was used to herd both sheep and cattle.