Sekirov Dictionary

bardie

/ˈbɑɹdi/

adjective 1
noun 2
forms 3

adjective1

Rude and insolent; bolshie.

noun2

•
(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
•
(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

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