Edible vs Bardie - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between edible and bardie

is that edible is that can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption while bardie is rude and insolent; bolshie.

As nouns the difference between edible and bardie

is that edible is anything edible while bardie is (scotland) a minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by or bardie can be (australia) the edible larva of an insect.

edible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

That can be eaten without harm; innocuous to humans; suitable for consumption.

edible fruit

That can be eaten without disgust.

Although stale, the bread was edible .

* 1957 , Jane Van Zandt Brower, Experimental Stdies of Mimicry in Some North American Butterflies'', in 1996, Lynne D. Houck, Lee C. Drickamer (editors), ''Foundations of Animal Behavior: Classic Papers with Commentaries , page 81,

However, rather than try to place the Viceroy in a rigid, all-or-none category which implies more than the data show, the Viceroy is here considered more edible' than its model, the Monarch, but initially less ' edible (except to C-2) than the non-mimetic butterflies used in these experiments.

* 2006 , Ernest Small, Culinary Herbs , page 17,

Recently germinated seeds are often even more nutritious from the point of view of humans because the stored chemicals are often transformed into more edible and palatable substances.

* 2009 , Ephraim Philip Lansky, Helena Maaria Paavilainen, Figs , page 4,

This gets to the heart of the matter because, in the parthenogenic state, the fruits are more edible (though there are also apparently advantages to pollinated figs, which may be bigger and stronger) and the trees more productive from the human's point of view.

Usage notes

edible is the most common term for “capable of being eaten”; eatable is rather informal, due to simple analysis as eat with , while comestible is relatively formal.

Synonyms

* comestible * eatable * eatworthy

Antonyms

* inedible

Coordinate terms

* drinkable, potable * delectable

Noun

(en noun)

Anything edible.

(marijuana) a foodstuff, usually a baked good, infused with tetrahydrocannabinol from cannabutter etc.

Synonyms

* food

References

Anagrams

bardie

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by .

* 1998 , Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns , page 168,

Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.

Etymology 2

Adjective

(en adjective)

Rude and insolent; bolshie.

Etymology 3

From bardi .

Alternative forms

* bardee * bardy

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia) The edible larva of an insect.