Barnardine.

A reckless, dissolute fellow, “fearless of what’s past, present, and to come.” (Shakespeare: Measure for Measure.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Barley Sugar
Barmecide
Barmecide’s Feast
Barnabas
Barnabites
Barnaby Lecturers
Barnaby Rudge
Barnacle
Barnacles
Barnacles
Barnardine
Barn-burners
Barnet
Barnwell (George)
Baro-Devel
Baron
Baron Bung
Baron Munchausen (pron. Moohnkow-zn)
Baron of Beef
Barons War (The)
Barrack Hack (The)

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Bar`nardine