Meaning of barbigerous | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a beard; bearded; hairy.

humorous, rare

Examples

“1810, James Kennedy, Glenochel, Glasgow: R. Chapman, Volume 2, p. 118, Profoundly thoughtful looks the sage, / Barbigerous, and priestly mien’d;”

“1972, Saul K. Padover, Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography, New York: McGraw-Hill, Chapter 20, p. 348, the author magnificently barbigerous and the publisher elegantly bearded but bald”

“[…] check out a portrait of the earl and you’ll see on his chin a barbigerous bulk that makes the poor fellow look like an Elizabethan cross between two Sams: Uncle and Yosemite.”

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