whiskered

whisk·er  (hwskr, ws-)

n.

1.

a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.

b. A single hair of a beard or mustache.

2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.

3. Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker.

4. Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys.

5. Chemistry An extremely fine filamentary crystal with extraordinary shear strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.

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[Middle English wisker, anything that wisks, from wisken, to whisk; see whisk.]

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whiskered, whisker·y adj.

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whiskered [ˈwɪskəd]

adj

having whiskers

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

whiskered - having hair on the cheeks and chin   barbate, bearded, bewhiskered, whiskery unshaved, unshaven - not shaved

Translations

whiskered [ˈwɪskəd] ADJ → bigotudo

whiskered

adj → schnurrbärtig