baldist

adj

Etymology

From bald + -ist. Popularized by the television sitcom Seinfeld, in the episode "The Tape".

  1. derived from *bēlą
  2. derived from bal
  3. inherited from balled
  4. suffixed as baldist — “bald + ist

Definitions

  1. Discriminatory against bald or balding people.

    • "I’ve had baldist/homophobic abuse in the street a couple of times and I’ve even been asked on the Tube: ‘Are you BNP, mate?’"
    • The statement noted that the announcement "comes after years of 'baldist' press reports that have confused the two famously clean shaven, African-American members of Congress."
    • Yet this spectator can consider himself unlucky, and not just because the sharp-eared security somehow heard his "baldist" abuse above the cacophonous thumping from the now omnipresent "fan activation" speakers.
  2. One who discriminates against bald or balding people.

    • "Elaine, have you ever gone out with a bald man?" / "No." / "You know what that makes you? A baldist."
    • We must speak only of the Follicley^([sic]) Challenged to avoid being branded a baldist […]
    • The absence of an anti-baldist organisation also did not concern him; he had a full head of very long thick hair which was normally tied back in a horse's tail.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA