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bearding

SayBEERD-ingUS/ˈbɪɹdɪŋ/UK/ˈbɪədɪŋ/

2 meanings of bearding

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of beard. Use it after is or was, or as a noun for the action.

    On hot days you may see bees bearding on the outside of the hive.

    The cook was bearding oysters in the back of the kitchen.

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  2. 2
    noununcountable
    A problem on a TV picture where dark parts spread sideways into the bright parts.

    The old TV showed a lot of bearding around the white letters.

    After the repair, the bearding on the screen was gone.

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bearding is a form of beard

beard, verb: To act as a straight-looking partner for a gay person of the opposite sex, while being gay yourself. Full entry

Forms
beardbeards he/she/itbearding -ing formbearded past tense, past participle
Spelling
beard → bearding: add -ing

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