Definition of Whiskery in English :

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Whiskery

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Adjective

1. barbate, bearded, bewhiskered, whiskered, whiskery

having hair on the cheeks and chin

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Whiskery

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adjective -skerier or -skeriest
1. 
having whiskers
2. 
old; unkempt

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Whiskery

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n.
1.
a. whiskers The hair on a man's cheeks and chin.
b. A single hair of a beard or mustache.
2. One of the long stiff tactile bristles or hairs that grow near the mouth and elsewhere on the head of most mammals; a vibrissa.
3. Informal A narrow margin; a hairsbreadth: The candidate lost the election by a whisker.
4. Nautical One of two spars or booms projecting from the side of a bowsprit for spreading the jib or flying-jib guys.
5. Chemistry An extremely fine filamentary crystal with extraordinary tensile strength and unusual electrical or surface properties.

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