Beardier vs Beardie - What's the difference?
beardier | beardie |
(beardy)
Bearded.
* 1852 , William Kidd, Kidd's Own Journal: For Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General , Volume 2,
* 1855 , By John Ballou, The Lady of the West: Or, The Gold Seekers ,
* 1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island'', '' ,
* 1970 , James Stephens, Deirdre ,
* 2008 , Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland ,
Manly, masculine.
* 1851 , The Musical World , Volume 29,
(informal) A bearded person or animal:
# A bearded person; used to identify members of a group or class who coincidentally can be identified by the wearing of beards .
#* 1900 , ,
#* 2011 , Chris Gibson, John Connell, Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia ,
# A bearded dragon.
#* 2005 , Reptiles , Volume 13,
#* 2007 , Steve Grenard, Bearded Dragon ,
#* 2008 , Suzanne Buckingham, Meet the Bearded Dragon ,
# A bearded collie.
#* 1996 , Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life ,
#* 2005 , , The Complete Burke's Backyard: The Ultimate Book of Fact Sheets ,
# Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.
#* 1864 , John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts ,
As an adjective beardier
is (beardy).As a noun beardie is
(informal).beardier
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(en-adj)page 31,
- The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy' Italian, and still more-' beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes.
page 391,
- His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face.
page 44,
- But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.
page 152,
- "Very hairy, beardy', toothy kinds of heads," said Ardan. "I remember them, and they used to get hairier and ' beardier and toothier every second day.
page 42,
- The biggest, oldest, beardiest , reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.
page 228,
- The Doge is one of the popular barytone's most weighty performances, and we do not remember to have heard his voice more powerful, his acting more beardy and emphatic.
Noun
(beardies)- His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies .’
page 255,
- Seven such social groups were present at the two festivals: Beardies'; Jammers; Irish Fiddlers; Poets; Dancers; Campers an Vanners.The ' Beardies are men, mainly heavily bearded; described by David as ‘the traditionalists and fundamentalists of the folk scene’ who are often heads of folk club[s], the older generation and the highly respected (Figure 15.1).
- But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off.
page 52,
- It is impossible to determine the sex of beardies as babies or juveniles, so if you are thinking of breeding them, you may have to buy four or five and raise them in individual enclosures.
page 20,
- The bearded dragon will reach its adult length by one year. Baby beardies quickly grow into long, strong lizards!
page 73,
- Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.
page 754,
- Beardies take two to three years to mature, so be prepared for typical puppy activity during this time.
page 180,
- Loaches (or beardies') often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever '''beardies''' got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the ' beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.