Meaning of beardo | Babel Free

Definitions

A person with a beard.

derogatory, informal

Examples

“His [Richard Nixon’s] statement to the press⟳ in 1962, after the defeat⟳ by Pat Brown, became famous: “You won’t have⟳ Dick Nixon to kick⟳ around anymore.” Less well-known were private comments such as “We’ll kick⟳ their toes off in 1968” and “Kick⟳ the weirdoes and beardoes on the college campuses.””

“1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press⟳, →ISBN, page 90, Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer⟳ to the group was birubū dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.””

“2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, →ISBN, page 331, However you get⟳ through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind⟳.”

“2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, →ISBN,page 146, Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say⟳ Hello and he gave me a really stony look⟳ so I went back in. I really don’t know⟳ what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).”

“2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 119, ‘[…] He can’t control⟳ the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect⟳ to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run⟳ by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’”

“Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Thu., Aces Lounge, 11pm; Sat., the Scoot Inn, 10:20pm) Hyperintellectual, fully ineffectual hip-hop beardoes “Thou Shalt Always Kill⟳.””

“Morrissey, the poet and musician, refused to go on the Jimmy Kimmel show⟳ with the Duck Dynasty beardoes, because he considered them “animal serial killers.”*”

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