bearding

verb

1
To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
“Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.”
3
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
5
Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.

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