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

1. noun. One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
2. noun. Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A hair of the beard.
5. noun. One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
6. noun. Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.
7. noun. a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat

   Synonyms: vibrissa

8. noun. a very small distance or space

   "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"

   "they lost the election by a whisker"

   Synonyms: hair, hairsbreadth

9. verb. furnish with whiskers

   "a whiskered jersey"

   Synonyms: bewhisker

Synonyms

vibrissa, hair, hairsbreadth, bewhisker

Common word forms

whiskers, whiskered, whiskerer, whiskerless

Words from these letters

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