whiskered en · ADJ
Etymology
From whisker + -ed.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more whiskered | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most whiskered | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
side-whiskered · unwhiskered · whiskered tern
Synonyms
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)