Definitions for whiskers

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whiskers whisk·er

Spelling: [hwis-ker, wis-]

IPA: /ˈʰwɪs kər, ˈwɪs-/

Whiskers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in whiskers (ehikrssw).

Definitions for whiskers

noun

1. whiskers, a beard.
2. Usually, whiskers. side whiskers.
3. a single hair of the beard.
4. Archaic. a mustache.
5. one of the long, stiff, bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as the cat or rat; vibrissa.
6. Also called whisker boom, whisker pole. Nautical. any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind.
7. Radio, Electronics. cat whisker.
8. Crystallography. a thin filament of a crystal, usually several millimeters long and one to two microns in diameter, having unusually great strength.

Idioms

1. by a whisker, by the narrowest margin:

Origin of whiskers

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at whisk, -er¹

Examples for whiskers

"That'll be mostly hidden by his whiskers, when they grow," observed her guardian.

Look here, Mr. Sperry, how much is this bill with the whiskers?

Maybe it's 'cause I don't like the way he wears his whiskers.

"He'd better improve his whiskers first thing he does," suggested Percival.

In fact, traditional Chinese medicine outlines the uses for each component of a tiger, down to its nose leather and whiskers.

I sat beside John Bolton whose Nietzschean whiskers bristled at the turn history had taken.

His moustache was quite white: he wore the whiskers and imperial of 1850.

With only whiskers nobody could take Monsieur for anything but an Englishman.

You can't see his face for his whiskers, and can't see his whiskers for the dye upon 'em.

With the nation facing a graver crisis than Lincoln was so far willing to admit, his whiskers gave him…gravitas.