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say it: BLOO-beerd
bluebeard is a noun meaning "(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience". It is pronounced /ˈbluˌbiɹd/ — BLOO-beerd. It carries one recorded sense.
(fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bluebeard come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.