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 Definitions of whisker  [ˈʰwɪs kər, ˈwɪs-]  

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Definition of 'whisker' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) whisker
whiskers, a beard.

2.  whisker
Usu., whiskers. the hair growing on the sides of a man's face, esp. when worn long and with the chin clean-shaven.

3.  whisker
a single hair of the beard.

4.  whisker
Archaic. a mustache.

5.  whisker
one of the long stiff bristly hairs growing about the mouth of certain animals, as the cat or rat; vibrissa.

6.  whisker
any spar for extending the clew or clews of a sail so that it can catch more wind.

7.  whisker
by a whisker, by the narrowest margin.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME: fan, brush; see whisk , -er1)

Definition of 'whisker' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, hair, whisker
a very small distance or space
"they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker"

2. (verb) whisker, vibrissa, sensory hair
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

3. (verb) bewhisker, whisker
furnish with whiskers
"a whiskered jersey"


Definition of 'whisker' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) whisker
one of the coarse hairs sticking out an animal's mouth
the cat's whiskers


Definition of 'whisker' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) whisker
one who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion

2. (noun) whisker
formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural

3. (noun) whisker
that part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers

4. (noun) whisker
a hair of the beard

5. (noun) whisker
one of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal

6. (noun) whisker
iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc


Translation of 'whisker' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: in plural a man's moustache, beard and/or sideburns.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: snorbaard Arabic flag Arabic: شَعْر الوَجْه، شارِب ، لِ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: мустаци
Brazilian flag Brazilian: suíças Czech flag Czech: knír, vous, kotlety German flag German: der Backenbart
Danish flag Danish: overskæg; skæg; bakkenbar Greek flag Greek: γένια, φαβορίτες (πληθ.) Spanish flag Spanish: bigote, patillas, barba
Estonian flag Estonian: põskhabe Farsi flag Farsi: ريش Finnish flag Finnish: viikset
French flag French: barbe, moustaches, favori Hebrew flag Hebrew: שָׂפָם, זָקַן, וּפאוֹת Hindi flag Hindi: गलमुच्छा
Croatian flag Croatian: brk Hungarian flag Hungarian: pofaszakáll Indonesian flag Indonesian: kumis dan janggut
Icelandic flag Icelandic: (yfir-/vanga)skegg, barta Italian flag Italian: basette Japanese flag Japanese: ひげ
Korean flag Korean: 구레나룻 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: žandenos Latvian flag Latvian: vaigubārda
Malay flag Malay: misai; jambang Dutch flag Dutch: snor, bakkebaarden Norwegian flag Norwegian: bart, (kinn)skjegg
Polish flag Polish: wąsy, baki, bokobrody Portuguese flag Portuguese: suiças Romanian flag Romanian: barbă, mus­tăţi, favoriţi
Russian flag Russian: усы; борода; бакенбарды Slovak flag Slovak: brada, fúzy, bokombrada Slovenian flag Slovenian: brki, brada, zalizki
Serbian flag Serbian: brk Swedish flag Swedish: polisonger Thai flag Thai: หนวด
Turkish flag Turkish: favori Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 鬍子 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: бакенбарди, баки
Urdu flag Urdu: مونچھیں Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: râu ria Chinese flag Chinese: 络腮胡子

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