WHISKERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does whiskers mean? 

• WHISKERS (noun)
  The noun WHISKERS has 1 sense:

1. the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

  Familiarity information: WHISKERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHISKERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

beard; face fungus; whiskers

Hypernyms ("whiskers" is a kind of...):

facial hair (hair on the face (especially on the face of a man))

Meronyms (parts of "whiskers"):

moustache; mustache (an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "whiskers"):

fuzz (the first beard of an adolescent boy)

imperial; imperial beard (a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III)

beaver (a full beard)

goatee (a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard)

stubble (short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days)

vandyke; vandyke beard (a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke))

Attilio; soul patch (a small patch of facial hair just below the lower lip and above the chin)

Holonyms ("whiskers" is a part of...):

adult male body; man's body (the body of an adult man)

face; human face (the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear)

 Context examples 

The beard, forehead hair and whiskers protect the face.

(German Wirehaired Pointer, NCI Thesaurus)

His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The next morning Dorothy kissed the pretty green girl good-bye, and they all shook hands with the soldier with the green whiskers, who had walked with them as far as the gate.

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

There’s Jaheel Brenton, with the whiskers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Giant Schnauzer is a large, compact dog with bushy eyebrows, whiskers and a beard.

(Giant Schnauzer, NCI Thesaurus)

He had a stern, square face, with bushy side whiskers and a very questioning eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It has a long head with abundant whiskers, beard and eyebrows.

(Kerry Blue Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Both are tall fellows with whiskers, Fred handsome in the English style, and Frank much better, for he only limps slightly, and uses no crutches.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His hair and whiskers were shot with grey, and his face was all crinkled and puckered like a withered apple.

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

Mr. Eshton, the magistrate of the district, is gentleman-like: his hair is quite white, his eyebrows and whiskers still dark, which gives him something of the appearance of a "pere noble de theatre."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)