Autotonsorialist - Grandiloquent Word of the Day

Autotonsorialist [AW-toh-tohn-SOHR-ee-uhl-ist]
(n.)
- A person who cuts and styles his or her own hair (despite everyone’s advice to the contrary).

From what I can dig up, this appears to be a neologism (so, yes, it’s technically a “fake word” but my personal stance is that if enough people use it, it’s a real word). From "auto-" a word-forming element meaning "self" from Greek autos, a reflexive pronoun, "self, same," which is of unknown origin.
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Latin tonsorius "of or pertaining to shearing or shaving," from tonsor "a shaver, barber, shearer, clipper," from tonsus, past participle of tondere "to shear, shave, clip, crop”.

Used in a sentence:
“Oh wow… okay, I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that you’re an autotonsorialist, aren’t you? And maybe you’re catoptrophobic as well?”

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