monkey-shave

Updated: August 14, 2026

Both were short and stout, and both had scrubby beards, but Brummy's beard was a dusty black and Swampy's fiery red he indulged in a monkey-shave sometimes, but his lower face was mostly like a patch of coarse stubble with a dying hedge round it. They had travelled together for a long time. They seemed at times to hate each other with a murderous hatred, but they were too lazy to fight.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush