Meaning of beardism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prejudice against bearded people.
   rare, uncountable
2. The period during which one has a beard.
   dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable
3. A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
   dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.”

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

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

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