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词汇 moustache
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Definition of moustache in English:

moustache

(US mustache)
noun məˈstɑːʃ
  • 1A strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip.

    小胡子,八字须,髭

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The man police want to question is described as being in his forties, 5ft 10 in tall, medium build, with olive skin and short black hair and a thick moustache.
    • One had a black moustache and had his hair tied up.
    • She has a pencil-thin moustache on her upper lip.
    • She told police at the time that he had long hair and a moustache and was travelling alone in a white pick-up truck, with only his dog.
    • She said: ‘He looked like a robust muscular man with white hair and a moustache.’
    • Then they accuse me of not being able to grow a real moustache.
    • Just because a pimply-faced 15-year-old tries to grow a moustache so he can buy cigarettes, nobody's fooled.
    • Since he grew a long moustache for a role in the West End, people have stopped calling him Nigel in the street.
    • The dads in the 1900 and 1940s houses had a whale of a time, being required to do little more than grow a moustache, read old newspapers and lift their feet for their wretched wives to sweep under.
    • I, for one, would never consider voting for anyone who couldn't grow a moustache, at the very least.
    • One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
    • An old man wearing glasses that drooped down to his nose with grey hair and a thin grey mustache above his upper lip stood before us with a grin.
    • I saw Seymour today & he is having a struggle to grow a moustache.
    • He was swarthy and well-built, with dark hair and a moustache.
    • He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
    • I was in Germany for over a month, long enough to learn to appreciate the white beer, not long enough to grow a moustache.
    • He's described as 5'11 in height and of medium build with tightly cropped hair and a ginger moustache.
    • The soldier is played by Basim Hamed, a willowy, 31-year-old sculptor who shaved his shoulder-length hair and grew a mustache for the part.
    • He looked about 60, had really long grey hair and a long moustache, and thin, long, really white legs, proper old man's legs.
    • He can make out the attempts at a mustache on his upper lip, but his hair is too fine and matches his pink skin too well to show.
    Synonyms
    informal tash
    North American informal stash
    Scottish &amp North American mouser
    1. 1.1moustaches A long moustache.
      长髭
      a clergyman with long grey moustaches
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His hand twitched, as though resisting the urge to rise to his moustaches for a bit of compulsive twirling.
      • It took Vyaas 25 years to grow his moustaches, nurturing them with almonds, curd, ghee and lemon every day.
    2. 1.2 A growth similar to a moustache, or a marking that resembles one, round the mouth of some animals.
      (动物嘴部周围的)须状物
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Nurse Shark has a small mouth with what looks like a moustache to help it find food.
      • The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
      • I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache.
      • The Clay-colored can be distinguished from the Chipping by a brown, rather than gray, rump, a darker face pattern, and the absence of a moustache.
      • Izzy is described as a green parakeet with an orangey-red ring around his neck, a big, red beak with a black moustache and 28-inch tail feathers.

Derivatives

  • moustached

  • adjective məˈstɑːʃt
    • She found her bank card missing after the moustachioed stranger stopped to ask her for directions in a supermarket car park.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • School uniforms would end at high school and schoolteachers would not have to deal with ten-year-old children and moustached young adults within the same institution.
      • A heavily moustached man, upon noticing us, shushes his compadres: ‘Shut up, there are people here!’
      • Suddenly, he looks up to see a journalist and a photographer gaping at him though the glass and his moustached face breaks into a welcoming smile.
      • A tall, dark, mustached man stood up and extended a hand toward me.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Italian mostaccio, from Greek mustax, mustak-.

Definition of mustache in US English:

mustache

(also moustache)
noun
  • 1A strip of hair left to grow above the upper lip.

    小胡子,八字须,髭

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
    • I, for one, would never consider voting for anyone who couldn't grow a moustache, at the very least.
    • One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.
    • He looked about 60, had really long grey hair and a long moustache, and thin, long, really white legs, proper old man's legs.
    • An old man wearing glasses that drooped down to his nose with grey hair and a thin grey mustache above his upper lip stood before us with a grin.
    • He's described as 5'11 in height and of medium build with tightly cropped hair and a ginger moustache.
    • He can make out the attempts at a mustache on his upper lip, but his hair is too fine and matches his pink skin too well to show.
    • The dads in the 1900 and 1940s houses had a whale of a time, being required to do little more than grow a moustache, read old newspapers and lift their feet for their wretched wives to sweep under.
    • She said: ‘He looked like a robust muscular man with white hair and a moustache.’
    • She has a pencil-thin moustache on her upper lip.
    • One had a black moustache and had his hair tied up.
    • The man police want to question is described as being in his forties, 5ft 10 in tall, medium build, with olive skin and short black hair and a thick moustache.
    • The soldier is played by Basim Hamed, a willowy, 31-year-old sculptor who shaved his shoulder-length hair and grew a mustache for the part.
    • I saw Seymour today & he is having a struggle to grow a moustache.
    • She told police at the time that he had long hair and a moustache and was travelling alone in a white pick-up truck, with only his dog.
    • Then they accuse me of not being able to grow a real moustache.
    • Since he grew a long moustache for a role in the West End, people have stopped calling him Nigel in the street.
    • Just because a pimply-faced 15-year-old tries to grow a moustache so he can buy cigarettes, nobody's fooled.
    • He was swarthy and well-built, with dark hair and a moustache.
    • I was in Germany for over a month, long enough to learn to appreciate the white beer, not long enough to grow a moustache.
    Synonyms
    tash
    1. 1.1 A growth similar to a moustache, or a marking that resembles one, around the mouth of some animals.
      (动物嘴部周围的)须状物
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I waddled jovially around the apartment in my Santa suit, laughing through the beard's tiny mouth hole like a walrus blowing through its moustache.
      • The cattle dog's harsh tousled coat (except on the head where it is shorter and flat), its moustache and little beard all give it a forbidding appearance.
      • Izzy is described as a green parakeet with an orangey-red ring around his neck, a big, red beak with a black moustache and 28-inch tail feathers.
      • The Nurse Shark has a small mouth with what looks like a moustache to help it find food.
      • The Clay-colored can be distinguished from the Chipping by a brown, rather than gray, rump, a darker face pattern, and the absence of a moustache.

Origin

Late 16th century: from French, from Italian mostaccio, from Greek mustax, mustak-.

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