WHISKERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whiskered mean? 

• WHISKERED (adjective)
  The adjective WHISKERED has 1 sense:

1. having hair on the cheeks and chin

  Familiarity information: WHISKERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHISKERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having hair on the cheeks and chin

Synonyms:

barbate; bearded; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery

Similar:

unshaved; unshaven (not shaved)

 Context examples 

A measured step was heard upon the stairs, and a moment later a stout, tall, grey-whiskered and solemnly respectable person was ushered into the room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Promptly at nine o'clock the next morning the green-whiskered soldier came to them, and four minutes later they all went into the Throne Room of the Great Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a whiskered and colorless type, the latter characteristic pointing to the fact that he spends his days in arboreal seclusion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)