bardie

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/ˈbɑɹdi/

noun

A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.

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Meanings

bardie1

nounbardie (plural bardies)

plural bardies

  1. ScotlandA minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.

    […]Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.

    1998, Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns, page 168

bardie2

adjectivebardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)

comparative more bardie · superlative most bardie

  1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

bardie3

nounbardie (plural bardies)

plural bardies · alternative bardee · alternative bardy

  1. AustraliaThe edible larva of an insect.

    Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—.

    1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, pages 19–20

Origin

bardie · noun

From bard + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

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bardie · noun

From Noongar language bardi.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with bardie

hardytardymardycardiedardy
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Anagrams

Beairdabider
Cite this entry
APA

bardie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bardie

MLA

“bardie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bardie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bardie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bardie.

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