"beardling" meaning in English

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        "2": "beard",
        "3": "ling",
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      "expansion": "beard + -ling",
      "name": "suf"
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  "etymology_text": "beard + -ling",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beardlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1568, Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman, page 1",
          "text": "bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who wears a beard."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) One who wears a beard."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "beardling"
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        "2": "beard",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "beard + -ling",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beardlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "beardling (plural beardlings)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1568, Desiderius Erasmus, trans by Nicholas Leigh, Of the yong man and the euill disposed woman, page 1",
          "text": "bicause at your departing you had no berd at al, now you become a handsome beardling."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who wears a beard."
      ],
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        "(archaic) One who wears a beard."
      ],
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        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beardling"
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