{"id":9952,"date":"2014-05-08T11:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2014-05-08T11:34:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:34:50","slug":"schurrbart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9952","title":{"rendered":"Schurrbart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Schnurrbart\"<\/p>\n

I came across the wonderful German word Schnurrbart<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0283n\u028arba:\u0250\u032ft] recently and just liked the sound of it. The Bart<\/em> part means beard – you can see the connection – and the Schnurr<\/em> part comes from schnurren<\/em> (to purr). <\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia<\/a>: “Ein Schnurrbart ist ein \u00fcber der Oberlippe wachsender Bart.<\/em>” or “A moustache is an beard growing over the lip”, and it is also referred to as an Oberlippenbart<\/em> (overlipbeard). A large moustache is called a Schnauzbart<\/em> (Schnauze = lip, muzzle, snout). <\/p>\n

Other words used for moustache in German include B\u00fcrste<\/em> (brush), Schnauzer<\/em> (a type of dog), Schnorres<\/em>, Schnorrati<\/em>, S\u00f6r<\/em>, Rotzbremse<\/em> (“snot brake”) and Popelf\u00e4nger<\/em> (“bogie catcher”). Do you know\/use any others?<\/p>\n

Other words for moustache in English include tache\/tash, whiskers, face fungus, tea\/soup strainer, snot catcher\/mop, lip rug, and crumb catcher.<\/p>\n

The English word moustache comes from French, from the Neapolitan word mustaccio<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Do moustaches have interesting names or nicknames in other languages?<\/p>\n

Sources: bab.La dictionary<\/a>, PONS dictionary<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a>, howtogrowamoustache.com<\/a>, OED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across the wonderful German word Schnurrbart [\u02c8\u0283n\u028arba:\u0250\u032ft] recently and just liked the sound of it. The Bart part means beard – you can see the connection – and the Schnurr part comes from schnurren (to purr). According to Wikipedia: “Ein Schnurrbart ist ein \u00fcber der Oberlippe wachsender Bart.” or “A moustache is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,116,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}