whiskered

English

Etymology

From whisker +‎ -ed.

Adjective

whiskered (comparative more whiskered, superlative most whiskered)

1. Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.

   Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 256:

     Their attention was, however, too much taken up with their fellow-passengers: a whiskered, cloaked, and cigared youth, with every thing military about him but the air:...

Synonyms

• bewhiskered
• whiskery

Derived terms

• side-whiskered
• whiskered tern

 

Translations

1. Possessed of whiskers

• French: barbu (fr)
• German: schnauzbärtig (de), schnurrbärtig (de), bärtig (de)
• Occitan: barbut (oc)
• Scottish Gaelic: ròibeanach

Anagrams

• dewhisker