moustachyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From moustache +‎ -y.

形容詞

moustachy (comparative more moustachy, superlative most moustachy)

1. Having a moustache.
   • 1856 December 20, The Tri-Weekly Commercial‎^[1], volume XI, number 118 (whole 1363), Wilmington, N.C.:

     As a class they are suspiciously well dressed, moustachy, coarse featured, fond of gay colored vests, dangling fob chains and big seals.

   • 1904, Danby Earl, Through Many Voices, page 72:

     I don’t like parsons; especially the country moustachy ones, and their poor dowdy wives, with coats and skirts and then a hardbrimmed hat with a feather on the top.

   • 2011, Garry Mulholland, Stranded at the Drive-In: The 100 Best Teen Movies, Orion Books, →ISBN:

     How different would the greatest teen musical of all time have been if one of the many other actors considered for Tony had got the part? Let us consider, for a moment . . . Anthony Perkins? Nah . . . too psycho. Burt Reynolds? Too moustachy.

2. Involving a moustache.
   • 1923, Thyra Samter Winslow, Picture Frames, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., page 224:

     Martin’s kisses were so hurried and moustachy and bristly—you couldn’t feel his lips, even—and unemotional.

   • 1927, Richmal Crompton, Millicent Dorrington, Bello, published 2017, →ISBN:

     He gave each of his sisters a fleeting and moustachy kiss, and sat down at the breakfast table.

   • 1931, Evelyn Scott, A Calendar of Sin: American Melodramas, volume II, page 307:

     IT drew her to him for a second and saluted her with a long-drawn, moustachy kiss.

   • 1983, Richard Masefield, Chalkhill Blue, Pan Books in association with Heinemann, published 1988, →ISBN, page 12:

     And he leant forward to give her a moustachy kiss.

   • 1994, Kurt Gänzl, “Die Rose von Stambul”, in The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, L–Z, Schirmer Books, →ISBN, pages 1242–1243:

     Fridolin Müller (Ernst Tautenhayn), the little Hamburg million-heir, and his veiled sweetheart Midili (Luise Kartousch) meet in duet (‘Als fromme Tochter des Propheten’), discuss smoking in duet (‘Ihr süssen Zigaretten’) get engaged and have their first moustachy kiss in duet (‘Fridolin, ach wie dein Schnurrbart sticht’), get a little more familiar in duet (Schnucki-Duett), and calm Hamburger papa with thoughts of grandchildren in a trio (‘Papachen, Papachen’), each a sprightly song-and-dance.