mustachio

American  

[muh-stah-shoh, -shee-oh, -stash-oh, -stash-ee-oh] / məˈstɑ ʃoʊ, -ʃiˌoʊ, -ˈstæʃ oʊ, -ˈstæʃ iˌoʊ /

noun

plural

mustachios

1. a mustache.

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mustachio British  

/ məˈstɑːʃɪˌəʊ /

noun

1. humorous (often plural when considered as two halves) a moustache, esp when bushy or elaborately shaped

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Other Word Forms

• mustachioed
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of mustachio

1545–55; < Spanish mostacho and its source, Italian mostaccio, variant of mostacchio < Medieval Greek moustáki, Doric Greek mýstax, stem mystak- upper lip, mustache

Example Sentences

Winner in the small-combo category was the Dots Trio from West Virginia's Fairmont State College, led by talented, pompadoured Music Major Tom Mustachio, 18, at the piano.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is this: “Bandy-legged Borachio Mustachio Whiskerifusticus, the bald and brave Bombardino of Bagdad, helped Abomilique Bluebeard Bashaw of Babelmandel beat down an abominable bumblebee at Balsora.”

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

Say this correctly without stopping: "Bandy-legged Borachio Mustachio Whiskerifusticus the bold and brave Bombardino of Bagdad helped Abomilique Blue-beard Bashaw of Babelmandeb to beat down an abominable Bumble-Bee at Balsora."

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

I wou'd fain have pluck'd some of the Hairs of his Mustachio, but the Guardian of the precious Treasure watch'd my Fingers too narrowly.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von