misopogon

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.

It is true to a proverb that we English people have a knack of doing the best possible things in the worst possible way; and that not, unfrequently, when we do once begin doing them we do them to death. It takes some time to convince us that the particular thing is worth doing at all; but, once persuaded, we go in for it with all our British might and main. The beard-and-mustache movement was a case in point. Some years ago a mustache was looked upon by serious English people as decidedly reckless and dissipated. A beard was fit only for a bandit. Nowadays the mildest youth in the Young Men’s Christian Association may wear a mustache without being denounced as “carnal,” and paterfamilias revels in the beard of a sapeur, no misopogon daring to say him nay.

A person with hate or contempt for beards.