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beardie|ˈbɪədɪ|
Also beardy.
[f. beard n. + -ie = -y4.]
1. a. Also beardie-loach. A name given, chiefly in Scotland, to a small fish, the Loach (Cobitis barbatula), from the ‘beards’ or bristles on its gills.
1828Blackw. Mag. Sept. 274 In mute..hope of some time or other catching a minnow or beardie. 1859Yarrell Brit. Fishes (ed. 3) I. 448 The habits of the Beardie in confinement.
b. The bearded collie. Cf. bearded ppl. a. 1.
1907R. Leighton et al. New Bk. Dog 102/2 Peeblesshire is regarded as the true home of the Beardie. 1931A. Croxton Smith About our Dogs xviii. 269 The hero of Alfred Ollivant's ‘Owd Bob’ is said to have been a ‘beardie’. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 73 The beardy or bearded collie is a type of sheep dog with long hair that resembles the hair of a Skye terrier.
2. a. (A nickname for) a bearded man. colloq. Also as adj.: bearded.
[1808Scott in Lockhart Life (1837) I. i. 3 My father's grandfather was Walter Scott, well known in Tiviotdale by the surname of Beardie... Beardie..derived his cognomen from a venerable beard, which he wore unblemished by razor or scissors.] 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 9 Beardy, a person with a beard or with long hair. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren iii. 54 Someone with a beard has ‘Beardie!’ or ‘Fungus face!’ shouted after him. 1960Spectator 22 Apr. 569 There were more than forty thousand of us—weirdies and beardies, colonels and conchies, Communists and Liberals. 1961Observer 28 May 1/5 The beardy weirdies with their querulous bleatings.
b. A local Australian nickname applied to a body of Southcotians, followers of John Wroe, who called themselves Christian Israelites.
1875Melbourne Spectator 21 Aug. 190/1 The Beardies or Christian Israelites of Ballarat. 1905Daily Chron. 8 Mar. 4/7 There is only one founder of a religion buried in Australia—John Wroe, who started the ‘Christian Israelites’, nicknamed the ‘Beardies’, since they never cut their hair. 1961W. H. G. Armytage Heavens Below iii. viii. 275 [John] Wroe..let his beard grow (his followers were known as the beardies).
Sense 1 b in Dict. becomes 1 c. Add: [1.] b. Austral. A fish with a beard or barbel, spec. the red-brown gadoid fish Lotella callarias of south Australian coasts (also called ling).
1881W. Macleay Descr. Catal. Austral. Fishes II. 114 Lotella marginata, n. sp... ‘Beardy’ of Fishermen... Port Jackson. Length twelve to twenty inches. 1906D. G. Stead Fishes Austral. 86 The Cod family..contains several species of economic value: the most important being the Beardie or Ling (Lotella callarias) and the Red Cod. 1951T. C. Roughley Fish & Fisheries Austral. 25 The ling or beardie occurs round the southern half of the Australian coast. 1966T. C. Marshall Trop. Fishes Gt. Barrier Reef 219 Beardie or tape-fish Anacanthus barbatus. |