moustached

English

Alternative forms

• mustached

Etymology

From moustache +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌstæʃt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈstɑːʃt/

Adjective

moustached (not comparable)

1. Having a moustache.

   British military officers are usually moustached.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37:

     [T]hey were baffled by tears in moustached sixth-formers, by walls of impassivity in the Lower School, by silent conspiracies which nullified the rules.

   • 1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 87:

     One of his best stories was "Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life" (1914), of which there survives only an amusing still, showing poor Mabel Normand chained to the rails by two toughs, the moustached villain threatening her with a sledge-hammer, and an awful sense of that inexorably approaching express!

Synonyms

• bemoustached, mustachioed

Derived terms

• moustached kingfisher
• moustached warbler
• unmoustached

Translations

having moustache

Belarusian: вуса́ты (vusáty) Catalan: bigotut, mostatxut Chinese: Mandarin: 留著八字鬍的 / 留著八字胡的, 留着八字胡的 (liúzhe bāzìhú de) Czech: kníratý Finnish: viiksekäs (fi); -viiksinen (in compounds) French: moustachu (fr) German: schnurrbärtig (de) Hungarian: bajuszos (hu) Indonesian: berkumis (id) Irish: croiméalach Italian: baffuto m Latvian: ūsains Polish: wąsaty (pl) Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: mustăcios (ro) Russian: уса́тый (ru) (usátyj) Scottish Gaelic: ròibeanach Spanish: bigotón m, bigotudo (es) m Swedish: mustaschprydd (sv) Turkish: bıyıklı (tr) Ukrainian: вуса́тий (vusátyj) Welsh: mwstasiog

Anagrams

• mustachoed