mustachy

comparative more mustachy · superlative most mustachy

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of moustachy.

   He watched her, biting down on his mustachy lip.

   1998, Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 72

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   Yes, miss, I seen him often ’nuff; he want no great to see. One dese yere ‘nose-in-de-air’ kind, bushy and mustachy, too. Not thet I minds de har on de faces ob de quality, but I does wish it had pleased de Lord in ’versal goodness to a made dese yere poor whites smooth faced.

   1907, Josephine Earl-Sheffield Porter, A White Rose and Other Stories, The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, page 9

   Turning to the cabinet-to-be the appearance is very “mustachy.” There are only two members who do not individually appear to favor the mustache and there is said to be hope for both these.

   1909 March 1, “The Mustache Cabinet”, in The South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Ind., page 6