Other forms: moustaches
A moustache is hair grown on the upper lip. Grow a moustache, a thick moustache, twirl his moustache.
British spelling keeps the French shape, moustache, where American writing uses mustache — one of the clearest spelling splits between the two. Named styles run from the pencil to the handlebar. Note that the Greek behind it means the upper lip itself.
1nounmoustacheHair grown on the upper lip.
“My grandfather had a thick grey moustache that tickled when he kissed us.”
moustache is facial hair.
Also accepted in games: mustache
Middle French moustache comes through Italian from Greek mystax, the upper lip or the hair on it.
Ancient Greek
μύσταξ — upper lip
Medieval Greek
μουστάκιον
la-eme
mustācium
Italian
mostaccio
Middle French
moustache
English, today
moustache
Used in English since the 16th century. From Middle French moustache from Italian mostaccio, from la-eme mustācium, from Medieval Greek μουστάκιον, diminutive of (Doric) Ancient Greek μύσταξ (“upper lip”), of unknown origin (probably a qsb-grc substrate). Replaced native kemp, from cenep.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA