beard
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- noun
- /bɪrd/
:
barba
- You know, your beard's getting gray.
- wear a beard
- a beard and mustache
- a long beard
But just because you can grow a beard doesn't mean that you should.
- But just because you can grow a beard doesn't mean that you should.
- Also use Donuts, beard cream or baddies beard oil or cream.
- I don't know if they're known for their beards, but I don't know.
- You know what people use this verb on their beards to thicken their hair.
- Look at that, that no beard looking ass boy dog.
- Thompson is long white biblical beard flailing about as the wind roars.
- Yeah, but when you cut your beard, you don't have to do shit.
Examples
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Because a short, heavy man with a thick, bristly beard and a big barrel chest was coming toward her.
Fiction book (1990) -
His beard was so long that it almost touched his chest.
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A man with a beard and hat...
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Who was that big guy with the beard?
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You think this man has a better beard than you, Jonathan?
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He's been growing his beard just for this moment.
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The man with the face full of dark beard had telephoned for a doctor.
Fiction book (1990) -
Much of that was attributable to the heavy dark beard that covered the lower part of his face.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's bald and he has a beard.
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A cherubic-looking man with a long white beard, Huggins was recalled by many as kind and helpful.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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Hair that grows on the face, like a beard or mustache
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Short stiff hairs on a man's face after a few days without shaving
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Hair that grows on a man's cheeks and chin
Long, stiff hair on the lower face that sticks out like an animal's
A full beard that covers the cheeks and chin, often worn in the past
Short pointed facial hair seen in paintings by Van Dyck
A small narrow patch of chin hair shaped into a short point like an emperor's style
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and join along the jaw, with no mustache
Hair that people grow near the mouth and chin, like a beard
Idioms
- Informal
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To confront a powerful person directly in their own place
Compounds
- Specialized
A thin sea animal that lives in a tube on the deep ocean floor and has tentacles
A tough grass from North America with leaves that turn pale bronze in autumn
An annual plant with yellow flowers that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico
A plant with long groups of bright red flowers and yellow hairs on the lower part of the flower
- Archaic
A small narrow patch of chin hair shaped into a short point like an emperor's style
A small evergreen shrub with silvery leaves and pale yellow flowers often grown in gardens
Thick sideburns that grow down the cheeks and join along the jaw, with no mustache
- Specialized
A pale greenish-gray growth with long hairlike strands that hang from tree branches
How Long
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Beard comes from an old German word meaning 'chin hair', and you can see the same idea in the German Bart and the English word barber. So a beard is the hair that grows on a man's chin, cheeks, and jaw.