pogonophobic

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adjective

Having an aversion to beards.

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Meanings

adjectivepogonophobic (comparative more pogonophobic, superlative most pogonophobic)

comparative more pogonophobic · superlative most pogonophobic

  1. rareHaving an aversion to beards.

    […] knows I'm pogonophobic. When I hired him he hadn't grown his beard. Nowadays I'm not important enough to fire him.

    2001, Carole Morin, Penniless in Park Lane, page 61
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    They are part of a noble pogonophobic tradition dating back to early Christian times, when clean-shaven Romans guarded Western civilisation against shaggy savages.

    1997, Kharak Singh, Apostasy among Sikh youth: causes and cures, page 175

    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.

    2006, Natalie Kristina Goldstraw, Superlative: Echoes of the Postmodern Condition

Origin

From pogono- + -phobic.

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APA

pogonophobic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pogonophobic

MLA

“pogonophobic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pogonophobic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pogonophobic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pogonophobic.

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