different between beard vs stache

English

Etymology

From Middle English berd, bard, bærd, from Old English beard, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?eh?, *b?h?erd?eh? (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian ??????? (borodá)). Doublet of barb.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??d/, /bi?d/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d
• Homophone: beared (in accents with the near-square merger)

Noun

beard (plural beards)

1. Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.
2. The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
3. The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
4. The byssus of certain shellfish.
5. The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
6. In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
7. (botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

8. A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
9. The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.
10. That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
11. (printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
12. (LGBT, slang) A fake customer or companion, especially a woman who accompanies a gay man, or a man who accompanies a lesbian, in order to give the impression that the person being accompanied is heterosexual.

Derived terms

• bearded
• beardless
• beardlike
• beard-second
• nosebeard

Translations

Verb

beard (third-person singular simple present beards, present participle bearding, simple past and past participle bearded)

1. (obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
2. 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.

   • 1943, Crockett Johnson, Barnaby, December 6, 1943

     We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...

   • 1963, Ross Macdonald, The Chill, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

     . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.

3. (transitive) To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
4. (transitive) To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
5. (LGBT, slang, transitive, intransitive) Of a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.
   • 1993, David Michael Robinson, Mollies are Not the Only Fruit (page 39)

     Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]

Derived terms

• beard the lion, beard the lion in his den

Translations

See also

• goatee
• hair
• merkin
• moustache, mustache
• pogonophobia
• sideburns, sideboards
• whiskers
• awn

Further reading

• beard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bader, Breda, Debar, Debra, arbed, ardeb, bared, bread, debar

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz (compare West Frisian burd, Dutch baard, German Bart), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ard?eh? (compare Latin barba, Lithuanian barzda, Russian ??????? (borodá)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ??rd/, [bæ??r?d]

Noun

beard m (nominative plural beardas)

1. beard

Declension

Derived terms

• beardl?as

Descendants

• Middle English: berd, bard, bærd, beord, burd
  • English: beard
  • Scots: berd, berde, beird

English

Etymology

Clipping of moustache or mustache.

Alternative forms

• 'stache

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st???/, Rhymes: -???
• (US) IPA^(key): /stæ?/, Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

stache (plural staches)

1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.
   • 2003, The New York Times, "Don't Wanna Grow Up Cuz Puberty Isn't Funny", July 28, 2003:

     Only one show has succeeded in keeping a kid in the lead for a decade: "The Simpsons" with the animated Bart Simpson. Watching Bart never mature is considered a key to its enduring appeal. "Early on, I know that the powers that be decided that no one would age," said Tim Long, the show's current head writer. "A kid with a starter ‘stache, that would just be unpleasant," he added.

   • 2005, The New York Times, "Democrats Still Searching for a Stronger Challenger", May 23, 2005:

     [The candidate] may face an entirely different challenge in his quest for the mayoralty: his mustache. [...] The perils of the ‘stache may be hard to define, but analysts say that looks matter in politics, where facial hair is frequently considered verboten.

Synonyms

• tache, 'tache

Anagrams

• 'taches, Scheat, achest, chaste, chates, cheats, he-cats, sachet, scathe, she-cat, taches, thecas