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Definition: Mustache |
MustacheNoun1. An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mustache" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Note: Mustache \Mus*tache"\ (m[u^]s*t[.a]sh"), noun; plural Mustaches. [Written also moustache.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you have a mustache, denotes that your egotism and effrontery will cause you a poor inheritance in worldy{sic} goods, and you will betray women to their sorrow. If a woman dreams of admiring a mustache, her virtue is in danger, and she should be mindful of her conduct. If a man dreams that he has his mustache shaved, he will try to turn from evil companions and pleasures, and seek to reinstate himself in former positions of honor. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Multilingual Slang | Norwegian (klitoriskost). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: MustacheSynonym: moustache (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mustache |
| English words defined with "mustache": dosed ♦ moustache cup, mustache cup, Mustaches, Mustacho, Mystacal ♦ soup-strainer ♦ toothbrush ♦ walrus mustache. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mustache": Mystacal. (references) |
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Screenplays | John has a long mustache. (The Longest Day; writing credit: Romain Gary, James Jones, David Pursall, Cornelius Ryan, and Jack Seddon. based on the book by Cornelius Ryan.) Well, we're certainly not going to send a woman with a mustache to do the job. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) And with a little mustache (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Leonard, I hear you've grown quite a mustache since I've been away! (Riding with Death; writing credit: Leslie Stevens; H.G. Wells) This is where you're supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sherlock Holmes in the Singular Case of the Plural Green Mustache (1965) His Movie Mustache (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man with mustache shaking the hand of a boy in football clothes, seated. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | How that fellow gets as far as he does with that mustache is a puzzle to me. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Congressman with large mustache as a bust sculpture. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Giant pig with mustache and cigar sitting on money in "wet territory" in contrast to a skinny "blind pig" in a "dry county". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Henry William Herbert, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to left, with mustache and imperial. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Xavier Donald MacLeod, half-length portrait, nearly facing front, with mustache and spectacles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Orville Wright before he grew a mustache, side view facing right, half length. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter reading a newspaper. |
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| "Mustache" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mustache" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mustache" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Mustache | Last name | 130 | 69,791 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "mustache": handlebar mustache ♦ mustache cup ♦ twirl one's mustache ♦ walrus mustache ♦ with a mustache. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mustache"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mustaqe (beard, moustache, whisker, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شاربان (moustache), شارب (drinker, moustache, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мустак (moustache, whisker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鬚 (beard), 鬍 (beard), 髭 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | knír (moustache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سبیل (Palpus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schnurrbart (moustache, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μουστάκι (moustache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפם (moustache, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bajusz (barb, fringe, moustache, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | baffi (moustache, side-whiskers, whiskers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 虎鬚 (bristly beard or mustache), 虎髭 (bristly beard or mustache), 鬚髯 (mustache and beard), ちょび髭 (a topknot, at a glance, bits and pieces, by accident, dot, drop by drop, easy, flickering, fluttering, frizzily, in trickles, intermittently, point, short mustache, simple, small mustache, sparsely, to be dazzled, to flicker, to flit, to litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅぜ" (beard, flushed face, main point, mustache and beard), とらひ' (bristly beard or mustache), ちょびひ' (short mustache, small mustache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 콧수염 (Moustache, Mustaches). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustachemay bigodes (moustache, whiskers), bigode (moustache). (various references) усы (moustache, whisker). (various references) brkovi (moustache, whiskers). (various references) mostacho (moustache), el bigote (moustache), bigotes (moustache, whiskers), bigote (moustache). (various references) mustasch (moustache). (various references) bıyık (moustache, tendril, whisker, whiskers). (various references) вус. (various references) râu mép (moustache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "mustache": mustached, mustaches. (additional references) | |
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"Mustache" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Matakohe, medtech, Meshach, Mestdagh, Misrach, montecchi, muchacho, Multscher, Musachi, Musaka, Musashi, mustach, Mustagh, Mustahil, mustakil, Mustakov, mustauche, Mutsuki, Muztagh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mustache" (pronounced mu"sta'sh) |
| 6 | m u" s t a' sh | moustache. |
| 3 | -t a' sh | potash. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-m-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: humates, matches, mutches. | |
-2 letters: acetum, acutes, chaste, cheats, chutes, cuesta, cushat, humate, maches, meatus, muches, muscae, muscat, mutase, sachem, sachet, samech, scathe, schema, smutch, sumach, taches, tusche. | |
-3 letters: aches, acmes, acute, amuse, cames, caste, cates, cause, cesta, chams, chase, chasm, chats, cheat, chest, chums, chute, cutes, haems, haets, hames, haste, hates, haute, heats. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-m-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: moustache, mustached, mustaches. | |
+2 letters: humectants, lunchmeats, moustaches, outmarches, outmatches, rheumatics. | |
+3 letters: avouchments, catechumens, champertous, mustachioed. | |
+4 letters: euchromatins, transhumance. | |
+5 letters: accouchements, chrysanthemum, cinematheques, multichannels, mycetophagous, transhumances, unsympathetic, vouchsafement. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 73 74 61 63 68 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- ... - .- -.-. .... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u s t a c h e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0073 0074 0061 0063 0068 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4787858667697471 |
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