longbeard

English

Etymology

From long +‎ beard.

Noun

longbeard (plural longbeards)

1. (literal) A man with a long beard.
2. (poetic) Synonym of greybeard (“an old man”)
3. 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.

4. Synonym of greybeard (“a bellarmine”)

Related terms

• Lombard
• Langobard

Anagrams

• boglander, old banger