barber's itch

1. 1.

   fungal infection of the face and neck

   Synonymstinea barbae

   Broadertinea

Questions about barber's itch

What does barber's itch mean?

barber's itch means "fungal infection of the face and neck".

What is another word for barber's itch?

Close synonyms include tinea barbae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barber's itch a common word?

barber's itch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.