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bardie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbɑɹdi/

Etymology

From bard + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Meanings

  1. (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:

Forms

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bardies Number=Plur lexicographic

bardie en · ADJ · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

Forms

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most bardie Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bardie Degree=Cmp lexicographic

bardie en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Noongar language bardi.

Meanings

  1. (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:

Forms

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bardee alternative lexicographic
bardy alternative lexicographic
bardies Number=Plur lexicographic