whiskers

whisk·er

W5127300 (wĭs′kər, hwĭs′-)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 tensile strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.

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

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whisk′ered, whisk′er·y adj.

whiskers

- Originally the word for a bundle of feathers, twigs, etc. used for whisking (from "whisk"), it then came to denote the projecting hairs or bristles of mammals.See also related terms for twigs.

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Noun

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whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's facebeard, face fungusadult male body, man's body - the body of an adult manfacial hair - hair on the face (especially on the face of a man)fuzz - the first beard of an adolescent boyimperial, imperial beard - a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon IIIbeaver - a full beardmoustache, 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 beardstubble - short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few daysvandyke 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 chinface, 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"

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