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Meanings of
whiskers
in English
Russian
вибрассы
Portuguese
vibrissa
Spanish
vibrisa
Catalan
vibrissa
Back to the meaning
Type of mammalian hair used for sensing.
whisker
vibrissae
vibrissa
Russian
вибрассы
Portuguese
barba
Catalan
barba
Spanish
barba
Back to the meaning
The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
beard
face fungus
Portuguese
barba
Usage of
whiskers
in English
1
He twitched his
whiskers
,
gave a good sniff, and rejected the nuggets.
2
She could feel the
whiskers
growing back that he'd shaved that morning.
3
I'd be growing
whiskers
in a couple of years, she told me.
4
His long
whiskers
sailed round the turn of the stairs and disappeared.
5
This Mayor Banks was in bed all but his
whiskers
and feet.
6
Make thou many stars, that they fly in the
whiskers
of Gurr.
7
Janus gripped his
whiskers
with all the fingers of the right hand.
8
But his object being secrecy, the rat brushed his
whiskers
in safety.
9
When warm, he had been rat-faced; the sparse
whiskers
completed the resemblance.
10
This Herman was the first man ever worked here in side
whiskers
.
11
Their curling brown
whiskers
aroused in him a feeling equivalent to indigestion.
12
It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up
whiskers
.
13
Faint and distant vibrations in the earth set her
whiskers
to quivering.
14
A man in a long coat, his face ornamented with red
whiskers
.
15
He'd stopped moving, though I could feel his
whiskers
tickling my palms.
16
Through its
whiskers
the calamitous object chattered effervescently and waved its hands.
Other examples for "whiskers"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
whiskers
whisker
Noun
Plural
Frequent collocations
black whiskers
white whiskers
red whiskers
long whiskers
gray whiskers
More collocations
Translations for
whiskers
Russian
вибрассы
кошачьи усы
вибрисса
вибриссы
Portuguese
vibrissa
vibrissas
barba
Spanish
vibrisa
vibrisas
bigote de gato
pelos de la nariz
barba
Catalan
vibrissa
vibrisa
vibrisses
barba
Whiskers
through the time
Whiskers
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common