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661 Etymology dictionary, p. beard (n.).1
beard (n.)
662 Etymology dictionary, p. beard (n.).2
… English beard "beard," from Proto-Germanic *bard (source also of Old Frisian berd, Middle Dutch baert, Old High German bart, German bart ), said in Pokorny to be from …
663 Etymology dictionary, p. beard (n.).3
Pubic hair sense is from 1600s (but neþir berd "pubic hair" is from late 14c.); in the 1811 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," the phrase beard-splitter is defined as, "A man much given to wenching" (compare beaver in the slang genital sense).
664 Etymology dictionary, p. beard (v.).1
beard (v.)
665 Etymology dictionary, p. beard (v.).2
… . Related: Bearded (Old English); bearding .
666 Etymology dictionary, p. beardless (adj.).2
Old English beardleas "without a beard; youthful" (of males); see beard (n.) + -less .
667 Etymology dictionary, p. beaver (n.3).2
"female genitals, especially with a display of pubic hair," by 1927, British slang, ultimately from beaver (n.1), perhaps transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), or directly from the appearance of split beaver pelts.
668 Etymology dictionary, p. bizarre (adj.).2
… "a beard" is no longer considered tenable.
669 Etymology dictionary, p. blue (adj.1).6
… Blue-beard, who kept his murdered wives in a locked room, is in English from 1798. For blue ribbon see cordon bleu under cordon. Blue whale is attested from 1851 …
670 Etymology dictionary, p. Charlie.3
… goatee beard" (1834, from portraits of King Charles I and his contemporaries); "a fox" (1857); in plural "a woman's breasts" (1874); "an infantryman's pack" (World War I); and …
671 Etymology dictionary, p. conspiracy (n.).4
… , Charles Beard, Hofstadter, Veblen, etc., but the degree of paranoia and unreasonableness implied in each use is not always easy to discern. The phrase was used …
672 Etymology dictionary, p. crisp (v.).2
… hair, beard, mane, etc.) from crisp (adj.) or else from Old French crespir, Latin crispare, from the adjectives. Meaning "to become brittle" is from 1805. Related: Crisped …
673 Etymology dictionary, p. dundrearies (n.).2
… a beard, resembling those worn by actor E.A. Sothern (1826-1881) while playing Lord Dundreary, the witless, indolent character in English dramatist Tom Taylor's …
674 Etymology dictionary, p. freak (n.1).3
… for bearded ladies, albinos, etc.; compare Latin lusus naturæ, which was used in English from 1660s). As "drug user" (usually appended to the name of the drug) it attested …
675 Etymology dictionary, p. frumbierdling (n.).2
Old English word meaning "a youth;" from fruma "first, beginning" (see foremost ) + beard (n.) + -ling .
676 Etymology dictionary, p. goatee (n.).2
"pointed tuft of beard on the chin of a shaven face," 1844 (as goaty; current spelling by 1847), from goaty (adj.). So called from its resemblance to a male goat's chin hairs.
677 Etymology dictionary, p. graybeard (n.).2
also greybeard, "old man," 1570s, from gray (adj.) + beard (n.). Middle English had gray-hair (n.) "old man" (late 15c.), and simple gray in this sense is from late 14c.
678 Etymology dictionary, p. halberd (n.).2
… *bardoz "beard" (see beard (n.)), also "hatchet, broadax" ("because the actual axe looks like a beard stuck to the wooden handle" - Boutkan). An alternative etymology [Kluge …
679 Etymology dictionary, p. hoar (adj.).2
… man's beard. Used as an attribute of boundary stones in Anglo-Saxon, perhaps in reference to being gray with lichens, hence its appearance in place-names.
680 Etymology dictionary, p. lackluster (adj.).2
… , lack-beard, lack-brain, lack-linen. Outside Shakespeare there was lackland (1590s), of a landless man; lack-Latin (1530s), of an ignorant priest; lack-learning (1590s …