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bardie en · NOUN · etymology 1
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/ˈbɑɹdi/
Etymology
From bard + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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(Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.
[…]Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard. 1998, Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns, page 168:
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bardies
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bardie en · ADJ · etymology 2
Meanings
Rude and insolent; bolshie.
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most bardie
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more bardie
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bardie en · NOUN · etymology 3
Etymology
From Noongar language bardi.
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(Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, pages 19–20: