It ’s Movember , the month when normally naked upper lips get covered with mustaches that range from pleasant to ridiculous . For many , it ’s unneeded to grow a ' stache , since the whiskers is a democratic ( non?)grooming choice , and few beards are unaccompanied by a mellisonant ' stache . In recognition of seasonal and yr - long fascination with facial hair , here are some older terminal figure for the non - clear - shaved .
1. AND 2. BARBATULOUS AND BEARDLET
The very rare termbarbatulous — a proportional ofbarber — vocalise like magnetic variation ofbarbarous , but it describes a quality that , traditionally , would not match the barbarian lifestyle : have a teeny - weeny beard . This term dates from at least 1600 , and since the other nineties , beardolosists have called such itty - bitty growthsbeardlets . Oxford English Dictionary deterrent example of the term in consumption are jolly uproarious , including a 1928 representative from theDaily Expressdescribing “ The beardlet adorn the under - lip of Lord Bertie of Thame . ”
3. IMBERBIC
If you’reimberbic , you do n’t even have a beardlet . You ’re totally beardless , you naked - faced demon . This passing hidden word popped up in the former 1600s .
4. CAT-SMELLERS
Since cats use their beard to whiff , some have taken to calling hair’s-breadth , peculiarly a stache , cat - smellers . This term popped up in the mid-1800s and deserves a revival .
5. TAZ
Though this term brings to listen unholy beasts such as the Tasmanian devil , it ’s only a magnetic variation of some more coarse Word : tashandstache , which have long been abbreviation ofmustache . AsGreen ’s Dictionary of Slang(GDoS ) shows , tazis versatile enough to not only intend a mustache , as it ’s sometimes referred to a byssus or the peach fuzz of a jackanapes .
6., 7., 8., AND 9. FACE FUNGUS, FACE LACE, FACE FUR, AND FACE PRICKLE
Facial hair has seldom been in vogue as it is now , and that lack of vogueness can be look in insult such asface fungus , which have been spotted since the former 1900s . If using this term for someone ’s beard and/or mustache is n’t enough , you may also expend it as a byname and/or insult , such as , “ Hey ! Face fungus ! ” Far more gentle and complimentary terms includeface lacing , face fur , andface prickle .
10. FACE FINS
Here ’s a mustache - centrical terminal figure along the same lines . First blob in the eighties , this terminus implies a protruding , grotesque stache more likely to be ascertain on a contemporaneous hipster or 1920s flick villain . Fellows withface finstake the mustache to its most extravagant extreme point .
11. TOPIARIZE
Related to the wordtopiary , this recent but still under - the - radiolocation word bear on to trimming a whiskers and/or moustache in a personal manner that could be consider artsy - fartsy or fancy - shmancy . Paul McFedries ’s wonderfulWord Spysite records the first employment in a 1993 clause inThe Independentthat describes Sean Connery : “ … his beard topiarised to a silverish point , draw together Bondishly with snipe — powder - ironic gags and plenty of oneupmanship — but they never quite spark , leaving the film ’s Eastern anticipate unfulfilled . ” McFedries also document a tremendous variation by Douglas Walker in 2015 on Twitter : “ motorcar - topiarising your beard is difficult for the partially sighted man . ”
12. BEARDIE WEIRDIE
This disturbingly rime term has been around since the sixties , allot to GDoS. It to begin with referred to a fellow appear upon as a bookish egghead or radical rabble - rouser .
13. JUST AS I FEARED
Jonathan Green paint a picture this representative of rhyming slang may have breed from an 1846 Edward Lear limerick , which run like so : " There was an older world with a whiskers / Who say ‘ It is just as I feared ! ’ Two hooter and a hen / Four larks and a jenny wren / Have all built their nests in my beard . ” detest when that happens .
14. AND 15. POGONOTOMY AND POGONOTROPHY
These term are blends of Greek and English , and despite the fancy audio , they have shite - simple import . Pogonotomysimply refers to shave , whilepogonotrophyis the opposite : allow a beard to flourish on the facial stage . A 1996 role from theDaily Mailshows how fickle the populace can be when judging face fuzz : “ This hebdomad ’s exposure of Beatle George Harrison bear a moustache — and a particularly sad , droopy face one at that — catch students of pogonotrophy the world over in two minds . ”
