beardling

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English

Etymology

From beard +‎ -ling.

Noun

beardling (plural beardlings)

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

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