mustache

The definition of a mustache is hair on the upper lip.

(noun)

When a man does not shave his upper lip, the hair growth on his lip is an example of a mustache.

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See mustache in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

    1. the hair that a man has let grow out on his upper lip: sometimes used in the plural in reference to the two halves of this growth
    2. hair growing on the upper lip: at fourteen he's already getting a mustache
  1. the hair or bristles growing about the mouth in some animals

Origin: Fr moustache < It mostacchio, mustache < MGr mustaki < Gr mystax, upper lip, mustache < mastax, a mouth, jaws < IE base *menth- > mouth

See mustache in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also mous·tache

noun
  1. The hair growing on the human upper lip, especially when cultivated and groomed.
  2. Something similar to the cultivated, groomed hair on the human upper lip, as:
    a. A group of bristles or hairs about the mouth of an animal.
    b. Distinctive coloring or feathers near the beak of a bird.
    c. Food or drink sticking conspicuously to the upper lip: wiped the milk mustache from my face.

Origin:

Origin: French moustache

Origin: , from Italian dialectal mustaccio

Origin: , from Medieval Greek moustakion

Origin: , from Greek mustax, mustache, upper lip

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Related Forms:

  • musˈtached (mŭsˈtăsht, mə-stăshtˈ) adjective

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