Meaning of bardie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.
   Scotland
2. The edible larva of an insect.
   Australia

Examples

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

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

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