beardとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from 古期英語 beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂, *bʰh₂erdʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)). Doublet of barb.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪəd/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /bɪɹd/, /biɚd/
• 韻: -ɪə(r)d
• Homophone: beared (in accents with the near-square merger)

名詞

beard (複数形 beards)

1. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
2. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 90:

     At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.

3. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
4. The byssus of certain shellfish.
5. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

   the beard of grain

8. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
9. The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
10. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
11. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
12. (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

派生語

• bearded
• beardless
• beardlike
• beard-second
• nosebeard

動詞

beard (三人称単数 現在形 beards, 現在分詞 bearding, 過去形および過去分詞形 bearded)

1. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2. To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

   Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     No admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.

   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     Murphy was a choleric man with a sense of his own importance. He was not to be bearded thus in his own seat of office. He rose with a very red face.

   • 1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943

     We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...

   • 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

     . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.

3. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster または similar shellfish) of the gills.
5. (LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
   • 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)

     Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]

   • 2017, Hildred Billings, Blown By An Inconvenient Wind:

     Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.

派生語

• beard the lion, beard the lion in his den

参考

• goatee
• hair
• merkin
• moustache, mustache
• pogonophobia
• sideburns, sideboards
• whiskers
• awn

Further reading

• beard on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar

語源

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂ (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian борода́ (borodá)).

発音

• IPA^(key): /bæ͜ɑrd/, [bæ͜ɑrˠd]

名詞

beard m (nominative 複数形 beardas)

1. beard

語形変化