Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Side whiskers that are narrow at the temple, broad along the lower cheek or jawline, and separated by a shaven chin.
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Examples
“(As a rule I don't especially like fiction that employs real historical figures in key roles; cameos are fine, but when they linger onstage too long I begin to notice the prosthetic noses and appliqué muttonchops.)”
Joseph Gangemi discusses the story behind his first book, Inamorata
“Points to Paul Giamatti for keeping his John Adams muttonchops all this time.”
Live-Blogging The Golden Globes With MTV News’ Jim Cantiello » MTV Movies Blog
“Anyway, awesome work all around, especially with your muttonchops.”
“Invented in England during the early 1800s, the first friction matches were aptly named Lucifers — they lit with a shower of sparks that could burn the muttonchops off a fellow smoker.”
“Along with the more famous styles of facial hair around at the time—goatee, muttonchops, Franz Josef, etc.—there were plenty of unusual types, such as the hulihee, French fork, chin curtain and a la Souvarov.”
The Wall Street Journal: Our Obsession With 'Looking Presidential'
“After his ripe turn in Robert Redford's The Conspirator, Danny Huston is set to don the muttonchops once again to play the man who invented the look, General Ambrose Burnside.”
“He can hide behind his muttonchops, and no one would be the wiser.”
“Here's a pre-muttonchops Isaac Asimov explaining his now-famous Three Laws of Robotics.”
“I'm not saying the muttonchops were responsible, exactly.”
“Gooch, with his gigantic head rocking Wolverine muttonchops, was again a just-mobile-enough rock in the defense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muttonchops’.
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 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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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Mélange
doggerel, odsbodkins, platitudinous, ennui, strappleberry, stygian, inchoate, incipient, deleterious, gnarled, troglodyte, interlocutor and 96 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Words that kick serious ass
juggernaut, haymaker, gung-ho, frag, smite, blunderbuss, gargantuan, ragnarok, ripsnorter, herculean, silverback, firebrand and 127 more...
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Pleasing to the Mind
crunch, tookie, splunge, necronomicon, perambulist, bizarro, fuck, assonance, euphony, cacophony, onomatopoeia, syntax and 57 more...
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Phenomena
This'll include any number of strange phenomena...things that boggle the mind, perhaps. Vague? Yes. Do I care? No.
apophenia, doppelganger, hippopotomonstros..., stigmata, spontaneous combu..., vapulequimortiphobia, exorcism, prosopagnosia, folie a deux, synaesthesia, muttonchops, savantism and 2 more...
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