Beard gay meaning
Def'n/Etymology of "beard"
Mojo1
I was just talking to co-workers and they said that some hollywood starlet was a “beard”. I asked and got the defn’ that it meant she was a “sham” wife for a same-sex attracted guy.
-is this term commonly used?
-can it put on to a “sham” husband of a lesbian?
Why “beard”? I can reflect of 5 words off the uppermost of my brain that would portray the situation superior than “beard”.
system2
Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.
Gail3
Gay guys are not considered very masculine.
Facial hair is seen as masculine. So, anytime a female is seen with a man a lot, people take for granted they are having sex. This will make the guy seem more masculine, (bearded) i.e. straight.
Elaine on Seinfeld was once a “beard” if I recall correctly.
Gail
“Any major dude with half a heart surely will narrate you, my friend–
Any minor society that breaks apart falls together again…”
-Steely Dan
Mojo4
Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.
but a beard is true, even if it is for a disguise. And of
The sad reality of many bearded relationships
Season 2 of Made in Heaven, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, addresses relevant romantic relationship issues faced in our society in each of its 7 episodes. In episode 2 there is a concise, yet not-so-subtle reference to an issue that exists but is not spoken about enough in society.
Karan (played by Arjun Mathur), one of the main characters, is gay. His mother is on her death bed and claims Karan’s sexual orientation is the reason for her reaching there. In this episode, Karan is asked by his masi (aunt) to marry a lady to appease his estranged mother and fulfill her wish to see him married before she loses her battle to cancer.
When he responds by saying that he can’t get married to a girl because he is gay, she counters it by saying that she is his “type”, and that and he should adjust for the sake of his dying mother, so that she can rest in peace.
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I am glad Karan refused. But many succumb to this pressure. In popular parlance, such a affair or marriage would be called a “bearded” one. A beard is someone who marries (or d
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
beardn.
1. female pubic hair; thus bearded adj.
| A Hundred Merry Tales (1845) 39: ‘Sir, ye have a beard above and none beneath.’ [...] ‘Mistress, ye include a beard beneath and none above.’ ‘Marry, then place the one against t’other.’. | |
| ‘The Fresh Exchange’ in FarmerMerry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 4: Here’s [...] Inaccurate beards for a disguise, / Will help all maidens that are bare / In all parts of their thighes. | |
| W. Drummond Epigram XII in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 695/1: When time should on her more years bestow, [...] That horse’s hair between her thighs would grow [...] But that this phrenzy should no more her vex, She swore thus bearded were their weaker sex. | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 7-14 Mar. 3: He drew his razor, and would own felt for her beard; and had she not resisted, he had doubtlesse shav'd her, and powder'd her with a P—x. | |
| Wandring Whore III 4: I’ve done the business with discretion, and spilt my Posset on thy beard and in thy belly. | |
| J. Oldham ‘Upon the Author of a Play call’d Sodom’ in Rochester Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 131: Or wear some stinking Merkin, for a Beard. | |
Women pay in ‘bearded’ relationshipsOne definition of the pos beard is found mostly in slang dictionaries, though the New Oxford Dictionary of English added the alternative definition a not many years ago. A beard is defined as a lady who dates, or marries, a gay man to provide cover for the man’s homosexuality. The word also applies to a man who does the same for a woman loving woman woman. Current chatter at ABC.com is filled with beard comments concerning Tom Cruise’s new lady care for. Cruise has long denied he is gay, but the rumors persist that Cruise dates and marries beautiful women, these so-called beards, to quash speculation about his sexual orientation. A subtext to the Jim West story is the fact that West, who acknowledges he is a gay man, has also dated women, and married one. I know some of these women. I haven’t talked to them about this, and I don’t intend to. It’s none of my business. But it has stirred for me this whole business of the “beard phenomenon” and the harm it does to women who assume the role of beard (unwittingly or not), the men who search it out, and our society that colludes in the deception, rather th |