English

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.

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—.

Alternative forms

• bardee
• bardy

Anagrams

• abider, air bed, airbed