lumbersexual

English

Etymology

From lumber(jack) +‎ -sexual, modelled after metrosexual.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌlʌm.bəˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌlʌm.bɚˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl, -ɛkʃuːəl
• Hyphenation: lum‧ber‧sex‧ual

Noun

lumbersexual (plural lumbersexuals)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• urban lumberjack