Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having or wearing whiskers.

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  • adjective Having whiskers; bewhiskered.
  • adjective humorous old

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  • adjective having hair on the cheeks and chin

Etymologies

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whisker +‎ -y

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Examples

  • "Why, you whiskery old skunk, you ain't got the grit to shoot sour apples," was Billy's answer.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • As a last stroke of culinary inspiration he dotted the peanut butter with cheesy puffs he remembered the whiskery one had enjoyed before.

    Snap Harry B. Sanderford 2011

  • Pop smells whiskery, like Listerine and aftershave and car engines, like the orange and blue Gulf Gas Station ring that keeps the key to the bunk house where more relatives live.

    Muslin Lydia Copeland 2011

  • Eli and Mr. Grady shaved every morning, so she was used to whiskery water.

    Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011

  • So in closing, this pair also puts young fresh and handsome and chiseled and whiskery faces on our brave and strong young men.

    Reader reviews of The Forever War by Dexter Filkins. 2008

  • When she felt his whiskery cheek against her neck, she closed her eyes.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • We also got to see some sharks in a cooler, a couple of guys riding in the back of an open trunk, a lady with a very whiskery chin (but not quite a goatee), and half a dozen stray dogs.

    Searching For "She-roes" in Nicaragua 2010

  • I picture his whiskery cheeks sprinkled with the white and gray hairs that he never seems to find with the razor, the way he used to look in his crossing guard uniform.

    Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010

  • We also got to see some sharks in a cooler, a couple of guys riding in the back of an open trunk, a lady with a very whiskery chin (but not quite a goatee), and half a dozen stray dogs.

    Bonnie St. John: Searching For "She-roes" in Nicaragua 2010

  • When she felt his whiskery cheek against her neck, she closed her eyes.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

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