mustache
pronunciation
How to pronounce mustache in British English:
UK [mə'stɑ:ʃ]
How to pronounce mustache in American English:
US [ˈmʌsˌtæʃ, məˈstæʃ]
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- Noun:
- an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip
Word Origin
- mustache (n.)
- 1580s, from French moustache (15c.), from Italian mostaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, diminutive of Doric mystax (genitive mystakos) "upper lip, mustache," related to mastax "jaws, mouth," literally "that with which one chews," from PIE root *mendh- "to chew" (see mandible). Borrowed earlier (1550s) as mostacchi, from the Italian word or its Spanish derivative mostacho. The plural form of this, mustachios, lingers in English. Slang shortening stache attested from 1985. Dutch slang has a useful noun, de befborstel, to refer to the mustache specifically as a tool for stimulating the clitoris; probably from beffen "to stimulate the clitoris with the tongue."
Example
- 1. Wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church in alabama .
- 2. He can eat soup just fine with that mustache .
- 3. We knew whole scenes by heart , like the end of flying deuces , when hardy is killed in a plane crash and then reincarnated as a horse with a black mustache and a bowler hat .
- 4. If you squint , herbie the love bug is sporting a hitler mustache .
- 5. To test his theory , he decided to do something drastic : he shaved off the left side of his mustache .