bardie
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom bard + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbardie (plural bardies)
- (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.
- 1998, Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns[1], page 168:
- […] Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.
Etymology 2
editAdjective
editbardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)
- Rude and insolent; bolshie.
Etymology 3
editFrom Noongar language bardi.
Alternative forms
editNoun
editbardie (plural bardies)
- (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia[2], pages 19–20:
- Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—.