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bardy

bardy 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 bardy

Forms of bardy

pluralbardies

Phrases with bardy

Questions about bardy

What is bardy the alternative form of?
Bardy is the alternative form of bardie.

Words near bardy in the dictionary

  1. Bardulph
  2. Bardwell
  3. Bardwell Park
  4. Bardwell Valley
  5. Bardwells
  6. bardy
  7. bardy grub
  8. bare
  9. bare all
  10. bare beater
  11. bare beaters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bardy (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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