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English
Etymology
From lumber(jack) + -sexual, modelled after metrosexual.
Pronunciation
Noun
lumbersexual (plural lumbersexuals)
- (slang, sometimes used attributively) A male hipster who affects a rugged, outdoorsy look, typified by plaid shirts and a full beard.
2014 November 9, Aaron Swaney, “It's November: Put the razor down”, in The Daily Herald, Everett, Washington, page D1:From the rise of the lumbersexual, outdoorsmen's answer to the metrosexual, to the use of beards to sell anything from clothing to beer, beards are cool once again.
- 2015, Harriet Walker, "Bristling with style: the hairy upper lip", The Times (UK), 10 January 2010:
- Trend-hunters announced last year that we had reached “peak beard”, saturation point with the sort of facial hair that has become the calling card of the urban hipster or “lumbersexual”.
2015 May 23, Christopher Solomon, “Our Pampered Wilderness”, in The New York Times:My beef isn’t with glamping, despite its issues (unfortunate portmanteau, the image of lumbersexuals playing Ralph Lauren at summer camp). But keep it out of our parks.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lumbersexual.
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