Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The habit of biting off the ends of the hairs of the beard or mustache.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Compulsive
eating ofhair .
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Examples
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And yes, it looks like the results of a colon cleansing at a trichophagia clinic.
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Turns out the young woman, whose name has not been released (we don't blame her) suffers from trichophagia.
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We present a 7 year old girl with Rapunzel syndrome, where the trichobezoar was not suspected at all specially with negative history of trichophagia.
frogapplause commented on the word trichophagia
(The habit of biting off the ends of the hairs of the beard or mustache.)
Why just the beard or moustache? What about the hair on one's head?
June 8, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word trichophagia
Is 'biting' figurative language? How do you bite off the end of a mustache? Unless it's very long, of course.
June 8, 2010
bilby commented on the word trichophagia
*nibbles frogapplause's moustache*
June 8, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word trichophagia
I was wondering the same thing, possibleunderscore. How is this done?
By the way, my definition came from the Wordnik definitions page.
June 8, 2010
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word trichophagia
According to Wikipedia, trichophagia is the '...compulsive eating of hair. Most often, long hair is masticated (chewed) while still attached to the head and then swallowed.'
So I guess that pretty rules out mustaches and cropped hair.
June 8, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word trichophagia
*hands bilby the tube of Vegemite with the hope that its malty brown goodness has the power to prevent bezoars*
June 8, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word trichophagia
What is the name for someone who eats others' hair?
June 8, 2010
Prolagus commented on the word trichophagia
Allotrichophagic? Or just weirdo?
June 8, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word trichophagia
Weirdo does have an economy of letters over "alltricophage" or "allotrichophagic"; however weirdo completely lacks the virtues of specificity and precision that the former possess.
June 8, 2010