POGONOTOMY

PRONUNCIATION: (po-guh-NAH-tuh-mee) 

MEANING: noun: The cutting of a beard; shaving.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pogon (beard) + -tomy (cutting). Earliest documented use: 1896.

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VOGONOTOMY – how to take all the interest out of the “Hitchhiker's Guide

POGO? NO, TOMMY! – answer to your kid's question, “Did the opossum in Walt Kelly's old comic strip smoke see-gars?”

POGONOTOME – another name for “razor,” which cuts beard hairs into very thin layers