mustache

mus·tache also mous·tache  (mstsh, m-stsh)

n.

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.

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[French moustache, from Italian dialectal mustaccio, from Medieval Greek moustakion, from Greek mustax, mustache, upper lip.]

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mustached (mstsht, m-stsht) adj.

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mustache

Noun

US same as moustache

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache" moustache facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face soup-strainer, toothbrush - slang for a mustache handle-bars, moustachio, mustachio - a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) walrus moustache, walrus mustache - a bushy droopy mustache