Emoji dictionary
🧔 Bearded Person emoji
[beer-did pur-suh n ih-moh-jee]
What does 🧔 Bearded Person emoji mean?
The bearded person emoji marks content dealing with male facial hair and grooming, men’s fashion and style, and beard culture more generally. (Yes, that’s a thing.)
The emoji also represent a middle-aged man or a certain burly, rugged, sexy manliness—if you’re into the whole lumbersexual look.
Related words:
- 💈barber pole emoji
- soul patch
- 🦁 lion face emoji
- neckbeard
- no-shave november
Where does 🧔 Bearded Person emoji come from?
Examples of 🧔 Bearded Person emoji
Growing out my beard 🧔
Who uses 🧔 Bearded Person emoji?
On social media and in texts, the bearded person emoji is frequently used in content referring to actual persons, almost always a cisgendered man, with beards, especially the big, bushy ones popular in the late 2010s.
🧔 Big beard.
🦁 Big performance. #AVFC pic.twitter.com/c3CnQ8RHLa
— Sky Bet (@SkyBet) May 15, 2018
Before and after a year long beard bet 🧔 pic.twitter.com/a99x0fHwHA
— Michael Whitehead (@barely_irish) May 7, 2018
With this trend has come all kinds of groups and organizations using beards as a fun way to promote its causes, like No-Shave November or Movember.
Later this week, we will be launching our Annual Father’s Day Beard Contest. Now’s the time to get your glorious beard photo ready! 🧔 📷 💪💫
Details coming soon…
Stay fresh and enjoy life!#dadbeard #beard #beards #BeardGang #bearded #fathersday2018 pic.twitter.com/peO6c06lsD
— Fresh Beards (@freshbeards) May 14, 2018
#Movember ended! But I still want to continue this. Should I? 🤔 🧔 #noshavenovember #newlook #newme pic.twitter.com/qEWzWGdN5i
— Kannaa (@kannaa_kr) December 2, 2017
In professional sports, especially hockey, some players (and their fans) grow “playoff beards,” not shaved until the team is eliminated from or wins the playoffs.
Congratulations to @Meechree on winning our playoff beard contest! Just look at that magnificent, luscious beard! 🧔 https://t.co/sxZy74HOED
— CoolHockey.com (@CoolHockey1) May 7, 2018
All those beards require maintenance, and so the bearded person emoji often tags content dealing with male grooming, a burgeoning industry in the late 2010s. In this way, it’s often paired with the barber pole or scissors emoji.
The amount of money I spend on hair products, trial and error, to find the perfect one…I think I need a sponsor 😂🧔🙏 pic.twitter.com/qt5ufPSqkG
— Mike Conroy (@MikeJConroy) May 16, 2018
Often times, the emoji is used to remark that such bearded fellows are handsome, many men and women liking the beard for its rugged, rough-around-the-edges sexiness—as long as it’s well groomed dudes.
David in a minivan 🚐! The beard 🧔 is back, he is looking mighty handsome! ❤😘😎 @thedavidcook pic.twitter.com/Jv3eJbF1Vz
— Sothia Chhoeum (@sothiachhoeum2) May 12, 2018
The association between beards and “being a man,” for better or worse, is a tight one, and so the bearded person emoji stands in for men more generally—or at least dudes thinking that’s what they are.
Prom with all my Dads 🧔 pic.twitter.com/cZ4XV73s2J
— Campbell Suffridge (@CampbellSuffri1) May 15, 2018
In LGBTQ slang, a beard is someone who acts or is used as someone’s partner to conceal that they are gay. Occasionally, the bearded person alludes to this slang.
TGIF. The gay intern @Apple did well 🐻🧔😍 #bears pic.twitter.com/lkdcfteaGx
— Garrett Paul Benson (@gpaulbenson) April 6, 2018
Note
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