I have a friend, and fellow TWW user, who contends that a goatee by definition includes hair above the lip...while I contend that a goatee only includes hair on or around the chin, and if a mustache is added then it comes something else, other than a goatee.


What say you TWW???

9/9/2010 10:38:25 AM

it's a Van Dyke is there if hair above the lip

[Edited on September 9, 2010 at 10:48 AM. Reason : sdf]

9/9/2010 10:39:18 AM

I thought a goatee was just chin hair

goat·ee (g-t)
n.
A small chin beard trimmed into a point.

[Edited on September 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM. Reason : lemme google that for you]

9/9/2010 10:40:38 AM

Needed for proper mustache rides.

9/9/2010 10:40:48 AM

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"it's a Van Dyke is there is hair above the lip"

yep thats what i was thinking too

9/9/2010 10:43:24 AM

show your friends this...

9/9/2010 10:43:50 AM

already did

he's stubborn

9/9/2010 10:44:48 AM

Where's the Molestache?

9/9/2010 10:46:18 AM

well i guess that's /thread

9/9/2010 10:46:36 AM

^^i think that's the copstash standard

[Edited on September 9, 2010 at 10:47 AM. Reason : fy]

9/9/2010 10:47:22 AM

people have been wrongly labeling a basic circle beard or van dyke a goatee for decades.

9/9/2010 10:58:47 AM

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"it's a Van Dyke is there if hair above the lip"

9/9/2010 11:06:01 AM

how does one actually achieve the super mario i wonder?

9/9/2010 11:07:04 AM

bullshit. i don't care what that random internet image says. it's a fucking goatee.

9/9/2010 11:08:50 AM

i read the thread title as goatsee and was rather confused about the content of this thread

9/9/2010 11:14:10 AM

that list is incomplete. there is no hitler stache

9/9/2010 11:27:15 AM

they had to leave it out to make room for Federation Standard

9/9/2010 11:34:17 AM

federation standard is a sideburns style by in which shaving them into a thin point at the end ala Spock.

9/9/2010 11:39:02 AM

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"bullshit. i don't care what that random internet image says. it's a fucking goatee."

9/9/2010 11:43:32 AM

forget the picture, pull out a dictionary

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"# a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn # In the traditional taxonomy of facial hair, a goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin. The word probably originated from the tuft of hair seen on an adult goat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatee # A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goatee # A style of facial hair achieved by growing only the beard on the front of and sometimes below the chin. The mustache is frequently grown to accompany the goatee. http://www.beards.org/terminology.php"

http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&langpair=en|en&q=goatee&hl=en

9/9/2010 1:13:42 PM