whiskery

adj

1. Having whiskers.

   “[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.”

2. Having protrusions resembling whiskers.

   “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.”

3. Resembling whiskers.

   “[…] all the white trees, tall like poles, that went up and up to where, right at the top, among whiskery branches, were bits of blue that were the sky.”

   “He nodded his head toward an ancient armchair spewing out its whiskery stuffing.”

   “At first, all he sees is a harmless-looking blob, a microscopic single-cell organism sporting a couple of whiskery flagella.”

4. Involving or caused by whiskers.

   “He bent his great, shaggy head over Harry and gave him what must have been a very scratchy, whiskery kiss.”

   “2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book Three, “Flesh and Blood,” p. 373, Despite my lightheadedness, I could feel everything. The shocking wetness of his mouth. The whiskery feel of his lips. His barging tongue.”

5. (UK, humorous)Old.

   “It is, of course, the most whiskery old cliché, but clichés usually have their basis in fact, and this one certainly does: Historically, the French have paid extraordinary—some would say excessive—attention to what they eat and how they eat it.”

   “I checked it out, and there were some good—if whiskery—stories.”

noun

1. (rare)A whiskey distillery.

   “[…]where the house of God was hidden by whiskeries, wineries, and breweries that were built against it.”

   “Even today, Devin’s story is told and retold in the local whiskeries and his critics secretly wish he would come swaggering back with another bombastic plan to enhance their wealth.”

   “Long synonomous^([sic]) with top-drawer talent, first-rate eateries, top-shelf whiskeries, Our Town has worn the crunchy fruit like a medal.”

   “Honda still has the reputation of being overrun by whiskeries and brothels.”