Whiskery

  

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Whiskery

Definition: Whiskery

Whiskery

Adjective

1. Having hair on the cheeks and chin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "whiskery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references)


Synonyms: Whiskery

Synonyms: barbate (adj), bearded (adj), bewhiskered (adj), whiskered (adj). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Whiskery

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

She looked long into the old whiskery face, with its bound jaw and silver eyes shining in the candlelight.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Whiskery

"Whiskery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Whiskery" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Whiskery

Language Translations for "whiskery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

vousatý (bearded, hoary, whiskered, with a mustache). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szakállas (bearded, corny), pofaszakállas (whiskered). (various references)

   

Manx

  

faasaagagh (bearded, scrubby). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iskerywhay

   

Russian 

  

со щетиной. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Whiskery

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-k-r-s-w-y"

-1 letter: shrieky, whisker, whiskey.

-2 letters: hikers, kyries, shriek, shrike, whisky, wisher.

-3 letters: heirs, hiker, hikes, hires, keirs, kiers, kyrie, risky, rykes, sheik, shier, shire, shirk, shrew, shyer, siker, skier, skiey, weirs, wheys, whirs, whisk, wires, wiser, wries, yerks, yikes.

-4 letters: heir, hers, hews, hies, hike, hire, ires, irks, keir, keys, khis, kier, kirs, kris, reis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Whiskery


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 68 69 73 6B 65 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "whiskery"


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