Dictionary Entry
whisker
whisker is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
- 2noun
Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
- 3noun
That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
- 4noun
A hair of the beard.
- 5noun
One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
- 6noun
Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
- 7noun
a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat
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- 8noun
a very small distance or space
"they escaped by a hair's-breadth"
"they lost the election by a whisker"
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- 9verb
furnish with whiskers
"a whiskered jersey"
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