bewhiskeredadj.
/bᵻˈwɪskəd/, U.S. /bəˈwɪskərd/, /biˈwɪskərd/ That has whiskers; wearing or sporting whiskers; esp. (of a man) having hair growing on the (sides of) the face (see whisker n.1 4a); bearded. Also figurative: that is no longer novel or fresh; outdated (see to have whiskers at whisker n.1 4d).Particularly associated with untidy or lavish facial hair, particularly of a style worn in the 19th cent.Now frequently humorous or somewhat archaic.
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?1795 ‘Officer of Guards’ Accurate & Impartial Narr. War I. 106 Else Hanover's heroes, bewhisker'd and fierce, When the French push'd in carte would have answer'd in tierce.
1809 Port Folio Dec. 498 A queer, bewhiskered, little High-Dutch trumpeter.
1837 J. F. Cooper Recoll. Europe II. 78 The present cropped and fringeless, bewhiskered and laceless generation of France.
1883 Harper's Monthly Mag. Dec. 100/2 We have always known the sunfish as the most peaceful of the finny tribe..; but let a stranger, a bewhiskered cat-fish, approach the bower, and war is at once declared.
1894 Washington Post 6 May 17/1 The old and bewhiskered fallacy that there is a Jill for every Jack has been exploded.
1903 Railroad Telegrapher 20 962/2 Brothers, when I speak of revolution, be not affrighted and conjure up a picture of a be-whiskered, red-handed individual with a meat axe.
1937 Discovery Nov. 334/2 His bewhiskered snout is a receiving-set fitted to pick up any broadcast interesting to a shrew.
1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 20/3 Every bewhiskered codger has a wool-clogged mouth organ secreted in the depths of a distressed sports jacket.
2004 A. Brinkley & D. Dyer Amer. Presidency 233 An interchangeable group of unrenowned and bewhiskered men who occupied the White House in the late nineteenth century.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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