Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of mustache.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See mustache.
Wiktionary
- n. A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Mustache.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
Etymologies
- Used in English since the 16th century. Via French, from Italian mostaccio, ultimately from Doric Ancient Greek μύσταξ ("upper lip"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ensor, who said he was a former Navy frogman and SEAL, had a thin moustache and wore a tattered green beret at a jaunty angle.”
“I'm talking the original, manly, 70's Brawny man, with the bitchin 'moustache, not this lame Bruce Campbell wannabe that beat me up in middle school for playing magic cards.”
“In other photographs, the moustache is bigger – even more magnificent, like when he was there in 1974.”
“His huge moustache is waxed to slippery perfection.”
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“You probably all know that his moustache is truly what defines him.”
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“Godamit: My white moustache is worth more than your brown moustache!”
“The moustache is reason enough, let alone him being a unifier who amazes me by his ability to put forward ideas I don't agree with and still make me think that they sound utterly reasonable and well thought-out.”
“(And apparently the female moustache is quite common in the American Mid-West. * duck*)”
“We evolved from apes and are still apes, less hairy maybe (unless you originated from the mediteranean where your beard grows up to your eyes and your eyebrows up to your hairline and even the women sport a thin moustache) and more ingenious, but apes nonetheless.”
“He does credit himself with a good sniffer though and claims that his thick moustache is both a blessing – pleasant smells linger longer – and a curse – the bad ones do too.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘moustache’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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The Moustache
and associated accessories.
moustache, moustache curtains, moustache beer, moustache comb, moustached, evil moustache, fantastic moustache, moustache trick, child moustache, moustached stranger, moustachio, femoustache and 76 more...
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Public List: A Facial Hair Stylesheet
Okay guys let me get a visual of you all. Let me know what you carry on your cheeks... anything goes. Slang, Metaphors, you name that thing.
Lets put Axioms about beards in there to.goatee, a man without mou..., five o'clock shadow, soulpatch, mutton chops, french fork, chin curtain, handlebar and chi..., a la souvarov, van dyke, hulihee, chinstrap and 19 more...
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whiskers
words that describe facial hair,
some cute ones heremoustache, burnsides, bumfluff, bewhiskered, moustached, burnside, dundrearies, handlebar, imperial, kesh, beard, goatee and 82 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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to acquire
moustache, thoughtcrime, lift, overall, razor, strength, oily, gin, oily gin, brotherhood, dull, toward and 108 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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misping's Words
bungalo, rich, ontology, feet, possum, bon voyage, gorilla, snog, pistachios, moustache, dahling, fanwank and 11 more...
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Reading List
Words that I've come across in my readings that I am particularly fond of.
coterie, teashop, dilettante, yeomanry, gramophone, scullery, paddocks, ablutions, asylum, livery, spirits, swarthy and 26 more...
Tweets
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milosrdenstvi Remarkable comparing the number of listings of this spelling vs. the more common in usage mustache. I agree that it is so much cooler with the extra letter. But I can't really say why. May 26, 2009
the_grene_kni3t I much prefer "moustache" with the stress on the second syllable. Dec 29, 2006