bardy

¹ American  

[bahr-dee] / ˈbɑr di /

adjective

Scot.

bardier, bardiest

1. bold; audacious; defiant.

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bardy ² American  

[bahr-dee] / ˈbɑr di /

Or bardee

noun

bardies plural

1. a beetle larva of Australia, Bardistus cibarius, that bores into plants and is used as food by Aboriginal peoples.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• bardiness
  noun
• bardily
  adverb

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• bardies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bardy¹

First recorded in 1780–90; bard ¹ + -y ¹

Origin of bardy²

First recorded in 1925–30, bardy is from the Nyungar word bardi

Example Sentences

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bardy bardies

Miss Delord plumped herself down upon the edge of the proffered seat, her toes bardy touching the floor.

From The Net by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

At last ould Coilia sade enuff,    My bardy tha did sing, Then gently tuke his moorland harp,    And brack it ivvery string.

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis

Ye bardy loon, gae but the house and mind your wark.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

At last owd Coilia sed enough,    Mi bardy thah did sing, Then gently tuke his muirland harp,    And brack it ivvery string.

From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

We saw where the woman had dug out bardies from the roots of a wattle, where the buck had unearthed a rat, and where together they had chased a lizard.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

I hear loud voices and a clamorous throng With braying bugles and with bragging drums— Bards and bardies laboring at a song.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

There was an honest poet once on earth Who beat all other bardies at a canter; Rob' Burns his mother called him at his birth.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

Sae, ye observe that a' this clatter Is naething but a "moonshine matter"; But tho' dull prose-folk Latin splatter In logic tulyie, I hope we bardies ken some better Than mind sic brulyie.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Sae, ye observe that a’ this clatter Is naething but a “moonshine matter;” But tho’ dull prose-folk Latin splatter In logic tulzie, I hope we bardies ken some better Than mind sic brulzie.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert