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whisk·er
(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.
[Middle English wisker, anything that whisks, from wisken, to whisk; see whisk.]
whisk′ered, whisk′er·y adj.
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whiskery
(ˈwɪskərɪ)adj, -skerier or -skeriest
1. having whiskers
2. old; unkempt
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Translations
ذو شَوارِب
meî vangaskegg/veiîihár
bradatýfúzatýs bokombradami
whiskery
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whisker
(ˈwiskə) noun1. in plural a man's moustache, beard and/or sideburns.
2. (usually in plural) one of the long hairs between the nose and the mouth of a cat etc.
ˈwhiskered, ˈwhiskery adjectivemiss etc by a whisker
to manage only barely to miss etc.
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