beard

• vt.あからさまに反対する；ひげをとらえる
• n. 顎ひげ
• vi.覆いかぶさるように行動する；男性の付き添いとして行動する
• n. （ひげ）人名；（英）Beard

ラテン語のbarba（ひげ）が語源で、語源的には理容師と同じ。

beard

beard: [OE] Old English beard came from West Germanic *bartha, which was also the source of German bart and Dutch baard. A close relative of this was Latin barba ‘beard’, which gave English barb [14] (via Old French barbe), barber [13] (ultimately from medieval Latin barbātor, originally a ‘beard-trimmer’), and barbel [14], a fish with sensitive whisker-like projections round its mouth (from late Latin barbellus, a diminutive form of barbus ‘barbel’, which was derived from barba).
=> barb, barber

beard (n.)

Old English beard "beard," from West Germanic *barthaz (cognates: Old Frisian berd, Middle Dutch baert, Old High German bart, German bart), seemingly from PIE *bhardh-a- "beard" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic brada, Lithuanian barzda, and perhaps Latin barba "beard").

The Greek and Roman Churches have long disputed about the beard. While the Romanists have at different times practised shaving, the Greeks, on the contrary, have strenuously defended the cause of long beards. Leo III. (795 AD) was the first shaved Pope. Pope Gregory IV., after the lapse of only 30 years, fulminated a Bull against bearded priests. In the 12th century the prescription of the beard was extended to the laity. Pope Honorius III. to disguise his disfigured lip, allowed his beard to grow. Henry I. of England was so much moved by a sermon directed against his beard that he resigned it to the barber. Frederick Barbarossa is said to have been equally tractable. [Tom Robinson, M.D., "Beards," "St. James's Magazine," 1881]

Pubic hair sense is from 1600s (but netir berd "pubic hair" is from late 14c.); in the 1811 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," the phrase beard-splitter is defined as, "A man much given to wenching" (see beaver).

beard (v.)

c. 1300, "to grow or have a beard," from beard (n.). The sense of "confront boldly and directly" is from Middle English phrases such as rennen in berd "oppose openly" (c. 1200), reproven in the berd "to rebuke directly and personally" (c. 1400), on the same notion as modern slang get in (someone's) face. Related: Bearded; bearding.

1. His beard was just beginning to show signs of grey.

彼のひげは少し白くなったばかりだ。

2.Just because he has a beard doesn 't necessarily mean he 's a hippy.

彼がひげを蓄えているからといってヒッピーだと言ってはいけない。

3.Bill preeneed his beard .

ビルはひげを丁寧に剪定した。

4.I don 't like myself without a beard .

ひげがない自分の姿が好きではありません。

5.A beard doesn 't scratch，it just tickles.

あごのひげは人を剃らない、つまりかゆい。