Pimp My Word | Episode Four

July 24, 2009 1:01 pm — 1 Comment

My friend Lindsay, who makes and sells jewelry, reports that her mustache earrings are selling like hotcakes, likely for ironic reasons. She asked me to pimp the word mustache.

I found a variety of mustache slang, but my favorite came from my Webster’s New World thesaurus: soupstrainer.

A mustache blog offered some other slang: grass grin, lip foliage, face fungus, and nose neighbor (another good one). Anyone else have any good ones? And what’s your favorite?

Mustache (or moustache if you’re a Brit) comes from the “Middle French moustache, from Old Italian mustaccio, from Middle Greek moustaki, diminutive of Greek mystak-, mystax, meaning upper lip, mustache,” according to Merriam-Webster online.

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One response to Pimp My Word | Episode Four

  1. My favorite slang terms for mustache are “lip sweater” and “cookie duster”

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