Meanings
plural moustachios
- alternativeAlternative spelling of mustachio.
What with his moustachios, his long beard, his richly embroidered crimson dress, and his Maltese cross and sword, he would be invaluable.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 215
present singular third person moustachios · participle present moustachioing · participle past moustachioed · past moustachioed
- alternativeAlternative spelling of mustachio.
The cakes were summed up by my mother, her upper lip moustachioed with cream.
2006, Martin Booth, Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood, →ISBN2 more examples
The family had picnicked there, near rocks moustachioed by moss, and the valley spreead beneath them like the falls' accomplishment.
1975, Nicholas Delbanco, Small rain, page 87I hope his moustachioing her so close to my exit from the psych ward did not doom Britney, by ink, to the same fate.
2012, Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
moustachio. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moustachio
“moustachio.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/moustachio. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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