mustachio

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noun

A mustache, especially a large or lush one.

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moustachiohandle-bars
Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounmustachio (plural mustachios)

plural mustachios · alternative moustachio

  1. A mustache, especially a large or lush one.

    Dompierre twirled his mustachios in relieved approval.

    1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados
verbmustachio (third-person singular simple present mustachios, present participle mustachioing, simple past and past participle mustachioed)

present singular third person mustachios · participle present mustachioing · participle past mustachioed · past mustachioed · alternative moustachio

  1. To adorn with a mustachio, or something that resembles a mustachio.

    The face of the sky was mustachioed by a long, thin cloud which drooped at the ends.

    2013, Kim Hunter, Scabbard's Song: The Red Pavilions, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    Mayonnaise mustachioed their mouths, melted butter ran down their chins, crab juice ran down their arms and soacked the newspapers Kate had spread on the floor, and the empty shells piled steadily higher in the emptied cooking pot she had placed in the center of the table for just that purpose.

    1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 118

    We kissed beside the river, we kissed behind her sisters' backs, we kissed with the crema of a freshly made coffee still mustachioing our lips.

    2009, Anthony Capella, The Various Flavours Of Coffee, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)

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moustachiohandle-bars

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

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Cite this entry
APA

mustachio. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustachio

MLA

“mustachio.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustachio. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mustachio,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mustachio.

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