beardo

Etymology

From beard +‎ -o; in some uses, clearly influenced by weirdo, hence a blend of beard +‎ weirdo.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ

Noun

beardo (plural beardos or beardoes)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person with a beard.
   • 1981 September–October, Fawn Brodie, “Richard Nixon, This Is Your Life: One Last Chance to Kick Tricky Dick”, in Mother Jones, volume VI, number VIII, San Francisco, Calif.: Foundation for National Progress, →ISSN, page 40, column 3:

     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.”

   • 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.’

   • 2009 March 20, Marc Savlov, “Eight Brit Unmissables”, in The Austin Chronicle (SXSW Music Supplement), Austin, Tex.: The Austin Chronicle Corporation, →ISSN, page 21:

     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.”

   • 2014, Stanley Bing [pseudonym; Gil Schwartz], “A Short Course in Ethics”, in The Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts, New York, N.Y.: Harper Business, →ISBN, pages 256–257:

     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.”*

     * Their entire raison d’être being the killing of ducks.

Anagrams

• Debora, abrode