whiskernoun
uk/ˈwɪs.kər/us/ˈwɪs.kɚ/[ C ] any of the long, stiff hairs growing on the face of a cat, mouse, or other mammal:
He watched the cat cleaning the milk off her whiskers.
whiskers [ plural ] old-fashioned or humorous
the hair growing on a man's face, especially the sides and/or the lower part
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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals
- -haired
- alpaca
- coat
- coated
- coney
- cony
- dander
- hairless
- hairy
- ivory
- mink
- plumage
- plumule
- prickle
- ruff
- spinneret
- spiny
- vellum
- wire-haired
- wool
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Idiom(s)
by a whisker
come within a whisker of (doing) sth