bardie

English

Etymology 1

From bard +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

  1. (Scotland) A minor poet or bard; used as a self-deprecatory epithet by Robert Burns.
    • 1998, Carol McGuirk, Critical Essays on Robert Burns‎, page 168:
      […] Burns signals her distance from the Classical Muses, and his position as more bardie than bard.

Etymology 2

Adjective

bardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)

  1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

Etymology 3

From Noongar language bardi.

Alternative forms

Noun

bardie (plural bardies)

  1. (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, pp. 19-20,
      Oh don't you remember Black Alice […] / […] the bardees she gathered, the snakes that she stewed / And the damper you taught her to bake—.

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