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mustachio

[ muh-stah-shoh, -shee-oh, -stash-oh, -stash-ee-oh ]

noun

plural mustachios.
  1. a mustache.


mustachio

/ əˈɑːʃɪˌəʊ /

noun

  1. humorous.
    often plural when considered as two halves a moustache, esp when bushy or elaborately shaped
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ܲ·ٲc󾱴DZ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mustachio1

1545–55; < Spanish mostacho and its source, Italian mostaccio, variant of mostacchio < Medieval Greek dzܲá쾱, Doric Greek ýٲ, stem mystak- upper lip, mustache
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mustachio1

C16: from Spanish mostacho and Italian mostaccio
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Example Sentences

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Others are joining Democrats asking for the impeachment of big mustachio, even before he starts his new assignment!.

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His trident beard was purple, his flamboyant mustachios gold, his long curls equal parts of both.

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I found it hard not to stare at the enormous mustachios that sprouted under their noses, especially when the men combed and waxed them, and twirled the ends.

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He was a youth of sixteen years, whip-thin, fearless, quick to laugh, with the faint shadow of his first mustachio on his upper lip.

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The marks of his age were visible, too, in his beard and mustachios, which had once been of the deepest black, but were now thickly grizzled with grey.

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