What does beardo mean?
Beardo means (informal, derogatory) A person with a beard..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(informal, derogatory) A person with a beard..
1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, →ISBN, 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, 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,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, page 119, ‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy old beardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’
His [Richard Nixon’s] statement to the press in 1962, after the defeat by Pat Brown, became famous: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” Less well-known were private comments such as “We’ll kick their toes off in 1968” and “Kick the weirdoes and beardoes on the college campuses.”
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip (Thu., Aces Lounge, 11pm; Sat., the Scoot Inn, 10:20pm) Hyperintellectual, fully ineffectual hip-hop beardoes “Thou Shalt Always Kill.”
Morrissey, the poet and musician, refused to go on the Jimmy Kimmel show with the Duck Dynasty beardoes, because he considered them “animal serial killers.”*
Such macho posturing squares with secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s desire to bring “warrior culture” back to the military. The former Fox News host has railed against DEI, “fat troops” and “beardos” (troops with beards), and envisioned a military full of “the right people” who fit his imposed standards of virility and masculinity.
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Beardo means (informal, derogatory) A person with a beard..
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1994, Patrick D. Gaffney, The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press, →ISBN, 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.”
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