beard
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
Noun 4 meanings
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
Verb 4 meanings
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
“Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
Of bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.
Etymology
PIE word *bʰardʰéh₂ From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂.
BEARD at a glance
BEARD has 5 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (B 3 + E 1 + A 1 + R 1 + D 2) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,233 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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