a. Sc. [Origin uncertain: perh. f. BARD sb.1 sense 2.] Bold-faced, defiant; audacious, pert. Hence Bardily adv., Bardiness.
1788. R. Galloway, Poems, 202 (Jam.). Shun the pert and bardy dame, Whose words run swiftly void of sense. Ibid., 64. They, bardily, and hardily, Fac’d home or foreign foe.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 118. Haudin up the … chin o’ him in a maist bardy and impertinent manner.
