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bardies

bardies is the plural of bardie.

bardies is the plural of bardy.

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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Questions about bardies

What is bardies the plural of?
Bardies is the plural of bardie.

Words near bardies in the dictionary

  1. bardically
  2. bardiche
  3. bardiches
  4. bardics
  5. bardie
  6. bardies
  7. Bardigang
  8. Bardigangs
  9. bardiglio
  10. Bardilo
  11. Bardin

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