beard
see also: Beard
Pronunciation Noun
Beard
Proper noun
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see also: Beard
Pronunciation Noun
beard (plural beards)
- Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- The byssus of certain shellfish.
- The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
- In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
- (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
- the beard of grain
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
- The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
- That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
- (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
- German: Alibifreundin
- Italian: appuntamento di copertura
- Russian: чайка
- Spanish: jotera, pantalla
beard (beards, present participle bearding; past and past participle bearded)
- (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (
please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗: - 1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
- (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- (LGBT, slang, ambitransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
- 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
- Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
- 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)
- Spanish: barbar
- Russian: смело выступа́ть против
- Spanish: provocar, mortificar
Beard
Proper noun
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