unbeard
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + beard. Compare Middle English unberdyng, unberdynge (“beardlessness”).
Verb
[edit]unbeard (third-person singular simple present unbeards, present participle unbearding, simple past and past participle unbearded)
- (informal, transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To remove one's beard; remove the beard of.
- 2013, Tova Rosen, Unveiling Eve: Reading Gender in Medieval Hebrew Literature:
- He is calmed down only when the bearer of the beard “unbeards,” and acknowledges himself as Asher's old pal: […]