Dictionary

bewhisker en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“at, on, upon”) + whisker.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.
   • Cinema magnates preferred to bewhisker the handsome profile and contort the slender Barrymore frame to suit weird, melodramatic parts then in vogue. 1937, The Literary Digest, volume 124, page 16:
   • But whenever a Kuna artist shows a face in front view there seems to be an overpowering urge to bewhisker it. 2009, Desmond Morris, Owl, page 102:

Forms

Deriveds

bewhiskered