beardies

Noun

beardy (plural beardies)

1. (informal) A bearded person; used to identify members of a group or class who can be identified by the wearing of beards.
   • His followers were known in Australia as ‘beardies.’1900, Alexander Gordon, “Wroe, John”, in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Vol 63
2. (informal) A bearded reedling.
   • The fascinating "beardie" is not a tit at all, but belongs to an Asian family, the parrotbills.1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 242
3. (informal) A bearded dragon.
   • But she always kept her distance whenever one of my beardies was out of its cage, as if Moose merely acted like a good-natured lap lizard to throw her off[…].2005, Reptiles, volume 13
4. (informal) A bearded collie.
   • Beardies grow fast. They grow like a weed and can be as unsightly as one.1996, Andrew De Prisco, James Burris Johnson, Choosing a Dog for Life, page 73
5. (informal) Any of several kinds of fish; a loach.
   • Loaches (or beardies) often also thinned our preserves, and in this they were occasionally helped by small eels. Whenever beardies got within an enclosure containing only creepers and caddis worms, in a very short space of time the beardies alone were left, so rapacious are these small fishes.1864, John Younger, River Angling for Salmon and Trout : With a Memoir and List of the Tweed Salmon Casts, page 180

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Noun

beardie (plural beardies)

1. (Scotland) A fish, a bearded loach or stone loach (Barbatula barbatula).