Bardish

a. [f. BARD sb.¹ + -ISH.]

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1. Of or belonging to bards. (Rather depreciatory.)

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1612. Selden, in Drayton, Poly-olb., A ij. Incredible reports, and Bardish impostures.

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a. 1790. T. Warton, Poems (1802), II. 151, note (Jod.). One of the Bardish traditions about Stonehenge.

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† 2. Sc. Rude, insolent; cf. BARDY. Obs.

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a. 1662. R. Baillie, Lett. (1841), I. 371 (Jam.). The rest of that day, and much also of posterior sessions, was misspent with the altercation of that bardish man Mr. David Dogleish.

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