How in one word do you describe the soft, thin, first-time mustache that grows when a boy goes through puberty?
Tender? Immature?
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Sign up to join this communityHow in one word do you describe the soft, thin, first-time mustache that grows when a boy goes through puberty?
Tender? Immature?
Peach fuzz. From OED:
Chiefly N. Amer. (orig. U.S.). A. n.
- Something resembling the down of a peach in texture; esp. soft facial hair, often that of an adolescent boy.
When I had stuff like this on my upper lip it was referred to by my elders and (doubtless) betters as bum-fluff.