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What is the difference between beard and moustache?

beard | moustache |

As nouns the difference between beard and moustache

is that beard is facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw while moustache is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.

As a verb beard

is to grow hair on the chin and jaw.

As a proper noun Beard

is {{surname|from=nicknames}.

beard

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
  • The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
  • The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
  • The byssus of certain shellfish.
  • The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
  • In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
  • (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
    • the beard of grain
  • A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
  • That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
  • (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
  • (LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.

    • Derived terms

    * bearded

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awn

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
  • To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
    • Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
  • * Macaulay
    • No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
  • * Barnaby , December 6, 1943
    • We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
  • * Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
    • . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.
  • To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
  • To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

    • Derived terms

    * beard the lion, beard the lion in his den

    Anagrams

    *

    moustache

    English

    Alternative forms

    * moustaches * mustache, mustaches

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
  • *
  • *:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache .
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    • Usage notes

    The plural forms moustaches'' and ''mustaches were formerly popular equivalent terms for the facial hair on the lip of one man, but these uses are now archaic with the singular now preferred.

    Derived terms

    * Fu Manchu moustache * handlebar moustache * molestache * philtrum moustache * stache, 'stache * tache, 'tache * toothbrush moustache

    See also

    * beard * sideburn, sideboard * whisker ----