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pogonic, a.|pəʊˈgɒnɪk|
[f. Gr. πώγων beard + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to a beard.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Pogonicus, of or belonging to the beard: pogonic.
So pogoˈnologist, a writer on beards; pogoˈnology, a treatise on beards; pogoˈnotomy [Gr. τοµή cutting], the cutting of the beard; shaving; pogoˈnotrophy [Gr. τροϕή nourishment], cultivation of the beard, beard-growing.
[1786(title) Pogonologia, or a Philosophical Essay on Beards, translated from the French.] 1788V. Knox Winter Even. I. ii. 24 It would not be surprising to see a barber style himself..Pogonologist. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 422 Some years ago we had to read the Pogonology. 1861Temple Bar Mag. III. 261 Ten years' experience may have made ourselves a little enthusiastic in favour of pogonotrophy. 1883Rolleston in Archæologia XLVII. 455 There appears to be some necessary correlation between Hippophagy, Pogonotrophy, and perhaps Paganism. 1897Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch Jan., Pogonotomy is what the Greeks used to call the gentle art of self-shaving. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §125/3 Pogonotomy, shaving. 1960Times 28 Sept. (Advertising Suppl.) p. iii/2 This is the age, in fact, of pogonotomy. 1966J. S. Cox Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 119/1 Pogonotomy, beard-cutting or shaving. 1966Daily Mail 29 Oct. 1/1 This week's picture of Beatle George Harrison wearing a moustache—and a particularly sad, droopy looking one at that—caught students of pogonotrophy the world over in two minds. |