beardling

noun

beardling

noun

Etymology From beard + -ling.

1

Archaic One who wears a beard.

  • bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling.1568, Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman, page 1

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