Once more, into the breach: it is time for Word Up, our regular wordplay segment. This week, we deliver a term from the bowels of local viral phenomena. Presenting the very hirsute:
micho
noun; facial hair believed to make one appear more masculine. A portmanteau of "misai" and "macho".
Usage example: "Do you think growing out my micho will help me score?"
"Micho" was first in a mustachio-ed sense in "That Okay Song", the latest socio-political, pat-on-the-back, there-there music video by those machas at That Effing Show. (Go watch, please. Some of KLue are in it.) Ezra Zaid and gang use the word a little differently, however, being:
micho
noun; a masculine person in possession of a thick mustache.
Usage example: "That Charles Bronson was such a micho."
According to That Effing Show documentation, "the lebat-ness of the moustache is key. It must be lebat. Stubbly, stylo, stylised, metrosexed moustaches - sorry, please move along". Our use of the word "micho", therefore, refers to both genuine michos, and the mustaches of micho wannabes."Micho" was invented specifically to describe one person: PopTV proprietor Hardesh Singh. He looks like this:
"I'm a Bai mah. It's the pride of my people," Hardesh explains.
"It's a measure of a man. Boys have facial hair, real men have micho," Hardesh continues. He believes that his mustache doesn't merely accentuate his manliness. "It's deeper than that. It is to real men what a mane is to a lion. It's the badge of the alpha-male."
According to Hardesh, there no beauty or health regimen can make one's scraggly mustache become a micho. "Michos choose the man," he says. "There isn't a specific beauty regimen one can employ. In fact, to do so would be a disgrace. Better to be a lion in a donkey's suit, than the other way around."
This article was extracted from KLue.