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Meanings of whisker in English
Long, whisker-like projection that form from metal objects over time.
Related terms
Portuguese
bigode A long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat.
Spanish
poner pelos Synonyms
Examples for "bewhisker"
Examples for "bewhisker"
1
Shmoos were plump white bewhiskered creatures who first appeared 15 years ago.
2
Let's go powder our noses while these bewhiskered gentlemen reap their beards.
3
Mrs. Carter, said slow old bewhiskered John Hoyt, was an extremely pretty woman.
4
An old man, gaunt, bewhiskered, trudges along confidently although he looks over eighty.
5
He was a heavy-set, bewhiskered man with gleaming eyes and rather a grim look.
Usage of whisker in English
1
Jeff went upstairs, brushed his teeth, and rubbed on the whisker-removing cream.
2
A second referendum a decade later did pass, but only by a whisker.
3
In a moment not a tail or a whisker was to be seen.
4
It stopped a whisker away from its lowest in four years.
5
He appears destined to fall a whisker short of his goal.
6
I think I saw a white whisker as he turned under the lamp-post.
7
He had a red, flabby face, framed in a thick whisker turning grey.
8
A scanty growth of whisker did not conceal the contour of his jaw.
9
The Coalition, favourites to win, came within a whisker of losing.
10
He cared not a whisker whether that was anger or embarrassment.
11
Cannabis is a whisker away from being officially legal in Canada.
12
Each whisker is worth from six bits to a dollar and a quarter.
13
He wore his mustache with a short beard and closely-cut whisker.
14
He wore his moustache with a short beard and closely-cut whisker.
15
We're receiving an encrypted whisker laser from one of Charon's comsats.
16
After another few seconds of sniffing, touching, and whisker twitching, curiosity overcame wariness.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common