Meanings
nounwalrus moustache (plural walrus moustaches)
plural walrus moustaches
- A moustache that resembles the whiskers of a walrus in being thick and bushy and drooping over the mouth
A large-bellied, red-faced man with a greying walrus moustache stood there clad only in trousers and a collarless shirt. He was pretty drunk.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish mursunviikset
- mursunviiksetmoustache that resembles the whiskers of a walrus
Irish croiméal róin
- croiméal róinmoustache that resembles the whiskers of a walrus
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