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Uncommonbeard
The correct spelling is beard.
How to pronounce beard
/bɪəd/
nounIPA: /bɪəd/
Say it like: Bee-rd
The correct spelling is beard. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck. For example: "the beard of grain"
Usage Examples
“the beard of grain”
“Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
- 2.The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
- 3.The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
- 4.The byssus of certain shellfish.
- 5.The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
verb
- 1.To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- 2.To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
- 3.To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
- 4.To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
- 5.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.
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