English
Etymology
From beard and -o. In some uses clearly influenced by weirdo; perhaps best analyzed as a Appendix:Glossary#blend|blend of beard and weirdo.
Noun
en-noun
- pejorative A person with a beard.
#*1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, ISBN 0520084721, page 90,
#*:Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympathetic shaykhs, to refer to the group was birubū dign, which can be glossed as the �bearded ones� or more colloquially as �beardo�s.�
#*2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador, ISBN 0312254997, page 331,
#*:However you get through your day in New York City, well then that�s a New York City kind of day, and if you�re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamist beardo from Queens, then whatever�s going through your head?, well that�s a New York state of mind.
#*2003, Suzi Rose, Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd, ISBN 0755201086,page 146,
#*:Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don�t know what his problem is. Anti-social beardo (that�s a weirdo with a beard).
#*2004, Joshua Wright, Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 1865087858, page 119,
#*:â��[…] He canâ��t control the weather. Itâ��s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. Itâ��s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.â��
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