bearded
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbɪədɪd/, /ˈbɪədəd/Category:English 2-syllable words#BEARDEDCategory:English 2-syllable words#BEARDEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BEARDED
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#BEARDEDAudio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɪɹdəd/, /ˈbiɚdəd/Category:English 2-syllable words#BEARDEDCategory:English 3-syllable words#BEARDEDCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#BEARDED
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#BEARDEDCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#BEARDED berded, either from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#BEARDEDCategory:English terms derived from Old English#BEARDED ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English;[1] by surface analysis, beard + -edCategory:English terms suffixed with -ed#BEARDED. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).
Adjective
bearded (comparative more bearded, superlative most bearded)Category:English lemmas#BEARDEDCategory:English adjectives#BEARDEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with entries#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEARDED (possessionalCategory:English possessional adjectives#BEARDED)
- Having a beard; involving a beard.
- Synonyms: barbigerous, beardy, be-bearded
- Synonyms: awny, barbate, barbed, bristly (botany)
- Synonym: bristly (zoology)
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- Good sir, be a man: / Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked / May draw with you:Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- 1693, Juvenal, The Satyrs, translated by John Dryden and others, London: J. Tonson, 1735, 6th edition, Satyr VI, p. 80,
- There are who in soft Eunuchs place their Bliss; / To shun the Scrubbing of a bearded Kiss, / And 'scape Abortion; but their solid Joy / Is when the Page, already past a Boy, / Is Capon'd late; and to the Gelder shown, / With his two Pounders to Perfection grown. / When all the Navel string cou'd give, appears; / All but the Beard, and that's the Barber's loss, not theirs.
- 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XII, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 160:
- He made us laugh till we cried, and, not altogether displeased at the effect, undersized and bearded to the waist like a gnome, he would tiptoe amongst us and say, 'It's all very well for you beggars to laugh, but my immortal soul was shrivelled down to the size of a parched pea after a week of that work.'Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- Having a fringe or appendage resembling a beard in some way (often followed by with).
- 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II), lines 1-3:
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, / Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, / Stand like Druids of eld [...]Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Panthea”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 184:
- [B]ut the joyous sea / Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star / Shoot arrows at our pleasure!Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- 1894, A. E., “On a Hill-Top”, in Homeward: Songs by the Way, London: John Lane, published 1901, page 42:
- Bearded with dewy grass the mountains thrust / Their blackness high into the still grey light,Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- Of an axe: having the lower portion of the axehead extending the cutting edge significantly below the width of the butt, thus providing a wide cutting surface while keeping overall weight low.
- (in combination) Having a beard (or similar appendage) of a specified type.
- c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- [...] who knows / If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent / His powerful mandate to you, ‘Do this, or this; Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that; / Perform 't, or else we damn thee.’Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- 1855, Matthew Arnold, Balder Dead, Part II, lines 55-7, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, p. 248,
- [...] for with his hammer Thor / Smote 'mid the rocks the lichen-bearded pines / And burst their roots [...]
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
- Down below that in the Great River, now at its coldest hour, the heads and shoulders of the nymphs, and the great weedy-bearded head of the river-god, rose from the water.Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
- (heraldryCategory:en:Heraldry#BEARDED) Having barbs of a certain color.
- Synonym: barbed
Antonyms
Derived terms
- bearded clam
- bearded collie
- bearded creeper (Crupina vulgarisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Crupina%20vulgaris)
- bearded dragons (PogonaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Pogona spp.)
- bearded eagleCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bearded%20eagle (Gypaetus barbatus)
- bearded hawksbeard (Crepis barbigeraCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Crepis%20barbigera)
- bearded iris (Iris subg. IrisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (subgenus)#Iris%20subg.%20Iris spp.)
- bearded lady
- bearded lizards (PogonaCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Pogona spp.)
- bearded mountaineer (Oreonympha nobilisCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Oreonympha%20nobilis)
- bearded musselCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#BEARDEDCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#BEARDED
- beardedness
- bearded parrotbillCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bearded%20parrotbill (Panurus biarmicusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Panurus%20biarmicus)
- bearded pig (Sus barbatusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Sus%20barbatus), Sus ahoenobarbusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Sus%20ahoenobarbus)
- bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Panurus%20biarmicus)
- bearded sakis (Chiropotes spp.)
- bearded seal (Erignathus barbatusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Erignathus%20barbatus)
- bearded starCategory:English links with redundant wikilinks#BEARDEDCategory:English links with redundant alt parameters#BEARDED
- bearded tit (Panurus biarmicusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Panurus%20biarmicus)
- bearded tortoiseCategory:Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa#bearded%20tortoise (Chelus fimbriataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Chelus%20fimbriata, EschweileraCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (genus)#Eschweilera spp.)
- bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)
- blue-bearded
- diabetic bearded woman syndrome
- full-bearded
- nonbearded
- scraggle-bearded
- unbearded
- white-bearded antshrike (Biatas nigropectusCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Biatas%20nigropectus)
Translations
Noun
bearded (plural beardeds)Category:English lemmas#BEARDEDCategory:English nouns#BEARDEDCategory:English countable nouns#BEARDEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with entries#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEARDED
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#BEARDED, botanyCategory:en:Botany#BEARDED, horticultureCategory:en:Horticulture#BEARDED) Ellipsis of bearded irisCategory:English ellipses#BEARDED.
- 2017, Barbara W. Ellis, “Iris: Irises”, in Taylor's Guide to Growing North America's Favorite Plants: Proven Perennials, Annuals, Flowering Trees, Shrubs, & Vines for Every Garden, New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 181:
- The herbaceous perennial irises benefit from at least one feeding a year in early spring as growth begins. Siberian and Japanese irises appreciate a second feeding just as the flowers fade. Beardeds do best with a second feeding in late summer.Category:English terms with quotations#BEARDED
Etymology 2
From beard + -edCategory:English terms suffixed with -ed#BEARDED.
Verb
beardedCategory:English non-lemma forms#BEARDEDCategory:English verb forms#BEARDEDCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with entries#BEARDEDCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEARDED
- simple past and past participle of beard
References
- ↑ Don Ringe (2021), A Historical Morphology of English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language – Advanced), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 149: “ModE bearded is probably not a direct descendant of OE ġebearded, since the modern word does not seem to be attested before the late fourteenth century.”