whisk·er (hw s k r, 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. [Middle English wisker, anything that wisks, from wisken, to whisk; see whisk.] whisk ered, whisker·y adj. |
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| Noun | 1. |  whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's faceadult male body, man's body - the body of an adult man facial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man) fuzz - the first beard of an adolescent boy imperial, imperial beard - a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III beaver - a full beard moustache, mustache - an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip; "he looked younger after he shaved off his mustache" goatee - a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard stubble - short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days vandyke beard, vandyke - a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) Attilio, soul patch - a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin face, human face - the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear; "he washed his face"; "I wish I had seen the look on his face when he got the news" |
Translations
whiskers [ˈwɪskəz] npl (also side whiskers) → basette fpl; (beard) → barba; (moustache, of animal) → baffi mpl
whiskers [ˈwɪskəz] npl (also side whiskers) → basette fpl; (beard) → barba; (moustache, of animal) → baffi mpl
whiskers [ˈwɪskəz] npl (also side whiskers) → basette fpl; (beard) → barba; (moustache, of animal) → baffi mpl
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