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beardism

noun

Etymology

From beard + -ism.

  1. inherited from *bʰardʰeh₂✻
  2. inherited from *bardaz✻
  3. inherited from *bard✻
  4. inherited from beard
  5. inherited from berd
  6. suffixed as beardism — “beard + ism”

Definitions

  1. Prejudice against bearded people.

    • Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.

  2. The period during which one has a beard.

    • the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism

  3. A support for beards

    A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.

    • arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism

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Derived

beardist

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