Misopogon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌmɪsəˈpəʊɡɒn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Misopogon is a noun meaning (rare) A person with hate or contempt for beards.
Meaning
(rare) A person with hate or contempt for beards.
Example Sentences
Some of the misopogons are quite consistent in this, and object to beards altogether on the grounds of their being unclean, ungentlemanly, un-English.
It may have been invented by the Abbé Faydit, a misopogon who wished to discredit beards and used this account in an attack on Jean Savaron, one of the ablest scholars who ever defended the beard clerical.
Word Forms
- misopogons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pogonophobia, beardist, pogonophobe, beardism, misogyne, androphobe.
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