Meanings
present singular third person bewhiskers · participle present bewhiskering · participle past bewhiskered · past bewhiskered
- transitiveTo give or add whiskers to; to put whiskers on.
But whenever a Kuna artist shows a face in front view there seems to be an overpowering urge to bewhisker it.
2009, Desmond Morris, Owl, page 1021 more example
Cinema magnates preferred to bewhisker the handsome profile and contort the slender Barrymore frame to suit weird, melodramatic parts then in vogue.
1937, The Literary Digest, volume 124, page 16
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From be- (“at, on, upon”) + whisker.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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