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Leisureguy
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 Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:58 am Post subject: Useful words for our pogonotomy hobby |
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pogonotrophy (po-guh-NAW-truh-fee) noun
The growing of a beard.
[From Greek pogon (beard) + -trophy (nourishment, growth).]
Pogonology is the study of beards and pogonotomy is a fancy word for shaving. |
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nteeman
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notthesharpest
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ScottS
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I thought pogonotomy was the study of the idea that the enemy is us.  |
That's really funny. I'll post A LINK |
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stanmog
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Not to hijack this thread, but as long as we're discussing interesting words, my favorite obscure word is:
ucalegon: a neighbor whose house is on fire
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Stan
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jww
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| Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:15 am Post subject: Re: Useful words for our pogonotomy hobby |
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| Leisureguy wrote: |
pogonotrophy (po-guh-NAW-truh-fee) noun
The growing of a beard.
[From Greek pogon (beard) + -trophy (nourishment, growth).]
Pogonology is the study of beards and pogonotomy is a fancy word for shaving. |
I saw this in my daily A-Word-A-Day email, and admitted first to chuckling, then figuring out ways to use it. I have shocked at least three people at the office (being devoutly religious, they play a bit of word completion in their heads and come up with an other less appropriate word and are all aghast at my use of language). Don't you just love it!
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JackieMartling
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Hmm... Well, I don't know that I'd consider pornography a hobby - more just a pleasant pastime.
~ Nathan
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FiReSTaRT
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| Another word to remember is "tonsorial" -- of or pertaining to a barber or barbering (Lat. tonsor = barber). One of my razors is actually called Tonsorial Gem.
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Racso_MS
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Sfox7076
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| Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| I would imagine most of us are pogonphobs....
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ichabod
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Anyone here practised pogonotomy in Potawatomi? With a lobotomy?_________________ Give us the luxuries, and we will forego the necessities.
Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, he'll be toasty for the rest of his life.
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stanmog
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Stan
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