Pogonophobic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pogonophobic is an adjective meaning (rare) Having an aversion to beards.
Meaning
(rare) Having an aversion to beards.
Example Sentences
[…] knows I'm pogonophobic. When I hired him he hadn't grown his beard. Nowadays I'm not important enough to fire him.
They are part of a noble pogonophobic tradition dating back to early Christian times, when clean-shaven Romans guarded Western civilisation against shaggy savages.
Did you hear of the pogonophobic barber, / Who suddenly decided that he wanted fame? / But on the stage he developed nomatophobia, / And couldn't bear to hear his own name.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gynophobic, metrophobic, xyrophobic, pedophobic, androphobic, odontophobic.
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