whiskery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Old.
British usage; Humorous
noun
Example Sentences
- "[T]he old lady is as ugly as any woman in the parish, and as tall and whiskery as a Grenadier."
- ""Don't you my-dear me," she sniffed. "I don't like you." / "Why?" / "Cos …" She ladled the punch carefully into the mugs and meditated. "Cos you chew tobacco. Cos you're whiskery. Wot I take to is smooth-faced young chaps.""
- "At a corner table two whiskery ranch hands were playing checkers."
- "I looked at Dr Grene and tried to imagine him altered by the moon, more whiskery, a werewolf possibly."
- "Smiling, he gave us a salute, turned his horse and rode down the trail, through the high hairy weeds and whiskery flowers thriving among the rocks and faded ruts of the road."
- "The whiskery batfish (a kind of anglerfish) is covered with outgrowths of skin that resemble bits of seaweed."
Etymology
From whisker + -y.