whiskered

adj

whiskered

adj

Etymology From whisker + -ed.

1

Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.

  • Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
  • Their attention was, however, too much taken up with their fellow-passengers: a whiskered, cloaked, and cigared youth, with every thing military about him but the air:...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 256:
Synonyms
bewhiskered, whiskery
Derived terms
side-whiskered, whiskered tern

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