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bardee

bardee is the alternative form of bardie.

Meaning of bardie

Noun (1)

bardie (plural bardies)

  1. (Scotland) A 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

Noun (2)

bardie (plural bardies)

  1. (Australia) The 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

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Synonyms of bardee

Forms of bardee

pluralbardees

Phrases with bardee

Questions about bardee

What is bardee the alternative form of?
Bardee is the alternative form of bardie.

Words near bardee in the dictionary

  1. Bardawil
  2. Bardawils
  3. bardcore
  4. bardcraft
  5. barded
  6. bardee
  7. bardee grub
  8. Bardeen
  9. Bardeens
  10. bardees
  11. Bardell

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bardee (page history and authors); bardie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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