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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

whiskered en · ADJ

Etymology

From whisker + -ed.

Meanings

  1. Possessed of whiskers; covered in bristles.
    • Michael's heavily whiskered face hadn't seen a razor in some days.
    • 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:... 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 256:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more whiskered Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most whiskered Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

side-whiskered · unwhiskered · whiskered tern

Synonyms

bewhiskered · whiskery

Translations (6)

gd ròibeanach (1. Possessed of whiskers) · de bärtig (1. Possessed of whiskers) · de schnauzbärtig (1. Possessed of whiskers) · oc barbut (1. Possessed of whiskers) · de schnurrbärtig (1. Possessed of whiskers) · fr barbu (1. Possessed of whiskers)