bardie

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɹdi/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)di

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.

bardie (comparative more bardie, superlative most bardie)

1. Rude and insolent; bolshie.

From Noongar language bardi.

• bardee, bardy

bardie (plural bardies)

1. (Australia) The edible larva of an insect.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia‎, pages 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—.

• Beaird, abider, abreid, air bed, airbed