Bernd

From German Bernd.

Bernd (plural Bernds)

1. A German anon (“anonymous poster”).
2. A participant on German online forums and imageboards.

Bernd

1. A male given name from German.

• Berndt

Diminutive of Bernhard. The “anon” sense comes from the popular German imageboard Krautchan, where anonymous posters were known as Bernds.

• IPA^(key): [bɛʁnt], [bɛɐ̯nt]

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Bernd m (proper noun, strong, genitive Bernds)

1. a diminutive of the male given name Bernhard

Bernd m (strong, genitive Bernds, plural Bernds, feminine Bernadette or Berndine)

1. (originally imageboard slang) an anon
   • 2021 December 7, Fefes Blog, Betreffs Impf-Werbung eines Homöopathie-Dealers‎^[1]:

     »[…] Um Gehör und Respekt für unsere Arbeit zu finden, müssten wir auch auf wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitete Fallsammlungen verweisen können, aus denen die Relevanz unserer Methode zweifelsfrei hervorgeht.«
     Ja Scheiße, Bernd! Die gibt es nicht! Was machen wir denn da?

     ‘[…] to meet the demand of attention and deference towards our work, we must be able to refer to a scientifically analyzed fund of cases, by means of which the relevance of our method is evinced without doubt.‘
     No shit, nigga! It ain’t existing, what we gonna do here?

• → English: Bernd