Definitions
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- noun The cutting of
beards ;shaving .
Etymologies
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pogono- + -otomy
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Examples
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One of the examples Blount uses is "pogonotomy," a word for "shaving."
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One of the examples Blount uses is "pogonotomy," a word for "shaving."
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"Okay, pogon is the Greek for 'beard,' but pogo evokes possum and 'a toy for jumping around on '(OAD) - hence a reader would be excused for assuming that pogonotomy means removal of a possum or a pogo stick from the body."
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"Okay, pogon is the Greek for 'beard,' but pogo evokes possum and 'a toy for jumping around on '(OAD) - hence a reader would be excused for assuming that pogonotomy means removal of a possum or a pogo stick from the body."
pavonine commented on the word pogonotomy
1. Cutting the beard or shaving one's facial hair.
2. What the Greeks used to call the gentile art of self-shaving
December 28, 2007
seanahan commented on the word pogonotomy
Interesting use of gentile in definition 2, I wonder what historical relevance it has.
December 29, 2007