nosebeard

English

Alternative forms
  • nose-beard, nose beard

Etymology

From nose +‎ beard.

Noun

nosebeard (plural nosebeards)

  1. (anatomy, rare, nonstandard) moustache
    • 2013, Eoin Colfer, Screwed:
      I'm not surprised Mike keeps him on the door; who could get any work done with a nose beard hovering around the place? Fecker's beard hair is red too, so from a distance it looks like Manny got himself punched in the face and is fine with blood all over himself.
    • 2017, Benyakir B. Horowitz, Manual Automata, page 118:
      He was looking full-on at me. An overgrown nosebeard, brown hairs overlapping onto his white chinstrap.
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