Frombeard +-o; in some uses, influenced byweirdo, hence ablend ofbeard +weirdo.
beardo (pluralbeardosorbeardoes)
- (informal, derogatory) A person with abeard.
1981 September–October,Fawn Brodie, “Richard Nixon, This Is Your Life: One Last Chance to Kick Tricky Dick”, inMother Jones, volume VI, number VIII, San Francisco, Calif.: Foundation for National Progress,→ISSN,page40, column 3:His[Richard Nixon’s] statement to the press in 1962, after thedefeat byPat Brown, became famous: “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” Less well-known were private comments such as “We’ll kick their toes off in 1968” and “Kick the weirdoes andbeardoes on the college campuses.”
- 1994, Patrick D. Gaffney,The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, University of California Press,→ISBN, page 90,
- Moreover, in the regional patois one common expression used by outsiders, including unsympatheticshaykhs, to refer to the group wasbirubū dign, which can be glossed as the “bearded ones” or more colloquially as “beardo’s.”
- 2000, Salman Rushdie,The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Picador,→ISBN, page 331,
- However you get through your day in New York City, well then that’s a New York City kind of day, and if you’re a Bombay singer singing the Bombay bop or a voodoo cab driver with zombies on the brain or a bomber from Montana or an Islamistbeardo from Queens, then whatever’s going through your head?, well that’s a New York state of mind.
- 2003, Suzi Rose,Accidental Heroine: Diary of an Attention Seeker, Authors On Line Ltd,→ISBN,page 146,
- Mr Bore is in his garden again. I went to say Hello and he gave me a really stony look so I went back in. I really don’t know what his problem is. Anti-socialbeardo (that’s a weirdo with a beard).
- 2004, Joshua Wright,Plotless Pointless Pathetic, Allen & Unwin,→ISBN, page 119,
- ‘[…] He can’t control the weather. It’s controlled by the atmosphere, with respect to variables such as temperature, moisture, wind velocity, and barometric pressure. It’s not run by just some mouldy oldbeardo wearing a bed sheet and throwing thunderbolts about.’
2014, Stanley Bing[pseudonym;Gil Schwartz], “A Short Course in Ethics”, inThe Curriculum: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master of Business Arts, New York, N.Y.: Harper Business,→ISBN,pages256–257:Morrissey, the poet and musician, refused to go on theJimmy Kimmel show with theDuck Dynastybeardoes, because he considered them “animal serial killers.”*- * Their entire raison d’être being the killing of ducks.
