misopogon means A person with hate or contempt for beards. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
misopogon is pronounced /ˌmɪsəˈpəʊɡɒn/.
Why “misopogon” is a great word
MISOPOGON — [Noun] One who harbors hatred or contempt for beards, and, by extension, the venerable austerity and philosophical depth they have historically symbolized. From Ancient Greek μῖσος (mîsos, "hatred") + πώγων (pṓgōn, "beard"); the word was used as the title of a satirical work by the Roman Emperor Julian in AD 363. Unlike a pogonophile, whose admiration is follicular and specific, or a misanthrope, whose disdain is universal and diffuse, the misopogon’s scorn is a precise, cultural aversion. It is the clean-shaven courtier’s smirk at the philosopher’s beard, the modern bureaucrat’s impatience with the elder’s deliberate silence, and the quiet horror at the wild, older-than-civility texture of time itself clinging to a face—a rejection not just of hair, but of the silent, patient time required to grow anything of substance.
noun
- A person with hate or contempt for beards.“Some of the misopogons are quite consistent in this, and object to beards altogether on the grounds of their being unclean, ungentlemanly, un-English.”
- A person with hate or contempt for beards.; The contempt of philosophers and associated paraphernalia (wisdom, the philosopher's beard, etc.)