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Moustache vs Stubble - What's the difference?

moustache | stubble |

As nouns the difference between moustache and stubble

is that moustache is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip while stubble is short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.

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 ----

    stubble

    English

    (wikipedia stubble)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
  • the short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.

    • Synonyms

    * five o'clock shadow * stub * stump

    Related terms

    * etiolate