Moustache

Definition: Moustache

Moustache

Noun

1. An unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache".

Date "moustache" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Domain	Definition
Multilingual Slang	Dutch (befborstel, de). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Moustache

Synonym: mustache (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Roughness	Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Moustache

English words defined with "moustache": handle-bars ♦ moustachio, mustached, mustachio, mustachioed. (references)

Specialty definitions using "moustache": INCOMPATIBILITY. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Moustache" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (moustache, whiskers).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Yeah, I think it was your sinister moustache. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) Have you seen the state of them two. One of 'em's got a moustache like Dad! (East Is East; writing credit: Ayub Khan-Din) Some Greek with a moustache that Martha attacked one night. (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; writing credit: Edward Albee; Ernest Lehman)
Movie/TV Titles	The Invisible Moustache of Raoul Dufy (1955) Cholly's First Moustache (1898) Paul et Moustache (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Hubert the Caterpillar Who Thought He Was a Moustache (reference) Moustache Pete Is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro! (Long Live Moustache Pete!): Italian/American Oral Tradition Preserved in Print ; The Fra Noi Columns,) (reference) The Biographer's Moustache (reference) Uncle Eddie's moustache; twelve poems for children (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Moustache (reference) Wall to Wall Moustache (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Norelco T600 Acu-Control Cordless Rechargeable Beard & Moustache Trimmer (reference) Panasonic ER203K Cord/Cordless Beard and Moustache Trimmer with Surgical Stainless Steel Blade (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with two unidentified women, one of whom is also dressed as a man. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Moustache" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Moustache" is used about 606 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%	606	10,598

Expressions using "moustache": budding moustache ♦ bushy moustache ♦ grow a moustache ♦ handlebar moustache ♦ large moustache ♦ moustache cup ♦ shave off one's moustache ♦ toothbrush moustache ♦ walrus moustache ♦ wear moustache ♦ with a moustache ♦ with moustache. 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 "moustache"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mustaqe (beard, mustache, whisker, whiskers). (various references)

Arabic		‏له شاربان, ‏ذو شارب, ‏شاربان (mustache), ‏شارب (drinker, mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Bulgarian		мустак (mustache, whisker). (various references)

Catalan		bigoti. (various references)

Chamorro		bigoti. (various references)

Chinese		鬍子 (beard, facial hair, moustache or whiskers). (various references)

Czech		knír (mustache). (various references)

Danish		overskæg. (various references)

Dutch		snor, knevel (cross bar, dog, latch). (various references)

Esperanto		lipharoj, liphararo. (various references)

Farsi		سبیل(mustachio). (various references)

Finnish		viikset (whiskers), huuliparta, huulinen. (various references)

French		moustache. (various references)

German		Schnurrbart (mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Greek		μουστάκι (mustache). (various references)

Hebrew		שפם (mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Hungarian		bajusz (barb, fringe, mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Icelandic		yfirvararskegg. (various references)

Indonesian		sungut (antenna, feeler, tentacle), kumis (whisker). (various references)

Italian		baffi (mustache, side-whiskers, whiskers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鼻髭 , 鬚 (beard, whiskers), 髭 (beard, whiskers), 口髭 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くちひ�', ひ�' (beard, humility, self-abasement, self-depreciation, whiskers), はなひ�'. (various references)

Korean		콧수염 (Mustache, Mustaches). (various references)

Lombard		barbiss. (various references)

Malay		kumis. (various references)

Manx		farveeal. (various references)

Papago		chiniwo. (various references)

Papiamen		mustashi, bigoti. (various references)

Pig Latin		oustachemay

Portuguese		bigode (mustache), bigodes (mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Romanian		mustaţã (awn, feeler). (various references)

Romansch		mustaz. (various references)

Romany		moost� tse. (various references)

Russian		усы (mustache, whisker). (various references)

Sepedi		tedu. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nausnica, brkovi (mustache, whiskers). (various references)

Shona		usopo. (various references)

Spanish		bigote (mustache), bigoti. (various references)

Swazi		emá-dzevu. (various references)

Swedish		mustasch (mustache). (various references)

Turkish		biyik, bıyık (mustache, tendril, whisker, whiskers). (various references)

Turkmen		murt. (various references)

Ukrainian		вуса (whiskers). (various references)

Vietnamese		râu mép (mustache). (various references)

Yucatec		me'ex (beard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "moustache": moustaches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Moustache" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: moustach, Moustachio. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "moustache" (pronounced mu"sta'sh)
6	m u" s t a' sh	mustache.
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-o-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: cathouse, moschate, mustache, outshame, soutache.
	-2 letters: acetous, comates, costume, coteaus, humates, mahouts, matches, mouches, mucosae, mutches, stomach, touches.
	-3 letters: acetum, acutes, cameos, chaste, cheats, chemos, chouse, chutes, comate, cometh, comets, comtes, costae, coteau, couths, cuesta, cushat, custom, humate, maches, machos, mahoes, mahout, mascot, meatus, mochas, mouths, muches, mucosa, mucose, muscae, muscat, mutase, ouches.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-m-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: moustaches, outmarches, outmatches.
	+2 letters: avouchments, champertous, mustachioed.
	+3 letters: euchromatins.
	+4 letters: accouchements, mycetophagous, vouchsafement.
	+5 letters: countermarches, decamethoniums, pachydermatous, parenchymatous, pneumothoraces, subatmospheric, vouchsafements.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 75 73 74 61 63 68 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0075 0073 0074 0061 0063 0068 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
moustache	124	clubman moustache wax	3
moustache wax	15	moustache parrot	3
cafe moustache	12	card has king moustache no suit	3
moustache parakeet	11	beard moustache trimmer	3
card has king moustache no suit which	10	moustache picture	3
moustache ride	7	moustache comb	2
moustache woman	7	moustache parakeets	2
man moustache	6	moustache trim	2
father moustache	5	bar moustache	2
500 9918 beard clipper cordless moustache trimmer wahl	5	moustache grooming	2
moustache trimmer	4	lyrics moustache mr nirvana	2
moustache sister	4	moustache restaurant	2
cup moustache	4	after lotion moustache shave	2
moustache photo	4	fake moustache	2
moustache shaved	4	beard and moustache	2
milk moustache	4	moustache nitto	2
moustache gay	3	beard gallery moustache	2
moustache style	3	cowboy moustache	2
handlebar moustache	3	moustache trimming	2
ave cafe melrose moustache	3	moustache scissors	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Moustache

Definition: Moustache

Moustache

Noun

Specialty Definition: Moustache

Synonym: Moustache

Synonyms within Context: Moustache

Roughness

Crosswords: Moustache

Modern Usage: Moustache

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Photo Album: Moustache

Non-Fiction Usage: Moustache

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Moustache

Expressions: Moustache

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Moustache

Modern Translation: Moustache

Albanian

Arabic

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Chamorro

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Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Farsi

Finnish

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German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

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Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Korean

Lombard

Malay

Manx

Papago

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Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Romansch

Romany

Russian

Sepedi

Serbo-Croatian

Shona

Spanish

Swazi

Swedish

Turkish

Turkmen

Ukrainian

Vietnamese

Yucatec

Derivations & Misspellings: Moustache

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Moustache"

Anagrams: Moustache

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Moustache

Photos:
Moustache

Illustrations:
Moustache

Computer Images:
Moustache