whiskery

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.

whiskery

(ˈwɪskərɪ) adj, -skerier or -skeriest1. having whiskers2. old; unkempt

Thesaurus

Adj.

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

Translations

有络腮胡子的有须的

whisker

(ˈwiskə) noun1. in plural a man's moustache, beard and/or sideburns. 鬍子 络腮胡子2. (usually in plural) one of the long hairs between the nose and the mouth of a cat etc. 動物的鬍鬚 动物嘴角上长的须ˈwhiskered, ˈwhiskery adjective 有鬍子的，有鬍鬚的 有络腮胡子的，有须的 miss etc by a whisker to manage only barely to miss etc. 只有些微之差 毫厘之差，些微之差