longbeard
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
longbeard (plural longbeards)
- (literal) A man with a long beard.
- (poetic) Synonym of greybeard (“an old man”)
- Synonym of greybeard (“experienced long-time member of a group”)
- 2009 January 31, Glenn Collins, “A Slow New York Passage, Up to Organic Food”, in New York Times[1]:
- For those who have never navigated “Fairways,” as some longbeards call the original store — there are satellites in Harlem and Brooklyn and on Long Island, with another planned for New Jersey — it is a low-ceilinged warren under pitiless fluorescents.
- Synonym of greybeard (“a bellarmine”)