Whiskery

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Having whiskers..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having whiskers.
2. Having protrusions resembling whiskers.
3. Resembling whiskers.
4. Involving or caused by whiskers.
5. (UK, humorous) Old.
6. (rare) A whiskey distillery.

Example Sentences

[T]he old lady is as ugly as any woman in the parish, and as tall and whiskery as a Grenadier.

"Don't you my-dear me," she sniffed. "I don't like you." / "Why?" / "Cos …" She ladled the punch carefully into the mugs and meditated. "Cos you chew tobacco. Cos you're whiskery. Wot I take to is smooth-faced young chaps."

At a corner table two whiskery ranch hands were playing checkers.

I looked at Dr Grene and tried to imagine him altered by the moon, more whiskery, a werewolf possibly.

Smiling, he gave us a salute, turned his horse and rode down the trail, through the high hairy weeds and whiskery flowers thriving among the rocks and faded ruts of the road.

The whiskery batfish (a kind of anglerfish) is covered with outgrowths of skin that resemble bits of seaweed.

[…] all the white trees, tall like poles, that went up and up to where, right at the top, among whiskery branches, were bits of blue that were the sky.

He nodded his head toward an ancient armchair spewing out its whiskery stuffing.

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Word Forms

• more whiskery
• most whiskery
• whiskeries

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