beard-strokingn.

Brit.

/ˈbɪədstrəʊkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbɪ(ə)rdˌstroʊkɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: beard n., stroking n.

Etymology: < beard n. + stroking n. Compare slightly earlier beard-stroking adj.

The action of stroking one's beard, esp. while deliberating or reflecting on a question. Hence: over-intellectualism, pretentiousness. Cf. chin-stroking n.

ΚΠ

1855 W. Allen Dead Sea I. v. 85 (chapter heading) Grave Speeches, Smoking, and Beard-stroking.

1978 W. Wharton Birdy (1980) 336 It must be terrible to be a psychiatrist in the army and have no beard to stroke. Poor bastards go to school ten years practicing beard stroking and proper hmming and then they zip the beard right out from under them.

2018 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Aug. 57 It might all sound like academic beard-stroking but I reckon even the biggest, toughest..boofheads among us will one day feel the cold clammy hand of loneliness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

beard-strokingadj.

Brit.

/ˈbɪədstrəʊkɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbɪ(ə)rdˌstroʊkɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: beard n., stroking adj. at stroke v.¹ Derivatives

Etymology: < beard n. + stroking adj. at stroke v.¹ Derivatives.

Given to or characterized by the stroking of one's beard, esp. while deliberating or reflecting on a question. Hence: over-intellectual, pretentious. Cf. chin-stroking adj.

ΚΠ

1853 Daily News 24 Nov. 4/5 I wrote you that the diplomatic boys who had been playing at Vienna would find out that an independent Sultan, and a most solemn, beard-stroking, and immovable divan, would raise its unallied head in the midst of their deliberations.

1856 Hogg's Instructor 6 168/2 That sort of gentle, beard-stroking self-complacency which says, ‘My fathers were wiser than all the other generations of the earth’.

1997 Neon May 105/2 This isn't some foul, beard-stroking muso whimsy.

2019 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Film section) Does this craft of film-making make for more ‘authentic’ movies? Or is it just beard-stroking affectation, designed to separate the digital masses from an analogue cognoscenti?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	beard-stroking
释义	beard-strokingn. Brit. /ˈbɪədstrəʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɪ(ə)rdˌstroʊkɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: beard n., stroking n. Etymology: < beard n. + stroking n. Compare slightly earlier beard-stroking adj. The action of stroking one's beard, esp. while deliberating or reflecting on a question. Hence: over-intellectualism, pretentiousness. Cf. chin-stroking n. ΚΠ 1855 W. Allen Dead Sea I. v. 85 (chapter heading) Grave Speeches, Smoking, and Beard-stroking. 1978 W. Wharton Birdy (1980) 336 It must be terrible to be a psychiatrist in the army and have no beard to stroke. Poor bastards go to school ten years practicing beard stroking and proper hmming and then they zip the beard right out from under them. 2018 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Aug. 57 It might all sound like academic beard-stroking but I reckon even the biggest, toughest..boofheads among us will one day feel the cold clammy hand of loneliness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). beard-strokingadj. Brit. /ˈbɪədstrəʊkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbɪ(ə)rdˌstroʊkɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: beard n., stroking adj. at stroke v.¹ Derivatives Etymology: < beard n. + stroking adj. at stroke v.¹ Derivatives. Given to or characterized by the stroking of one's beard, esp. while deliberating or reflecting on a question. Hence: over-intellectual, pretentious. Cf. chin-stroking adj. ΚΠ 1853 Daily News 24 Nov. 4/5 I wrote you that the diplomatic boys who had been playing at Vienna would find out that an independent Sultan, and a most solemn, beard-stroking, and immovable divan, would raise its unallied head in the midst of their deliberations. 1856 Hogg's Instructor 6 168/2 That sort of gentle, beard-stroking self-complacency which says, ‘My fathers were wiser than all the other generations of the earth’. 1997 Neon May 105/2 This isn't some foul, beard-stroking muso whimsy. 2019 Guardian (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Film section) Does this craft of film-making make for more ‘authentic’ movies? Or is it just beard-stroking affectation, designed to separate the digital masses from an analogue cognoscenti? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1855adj.1853
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