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bewhiskered

[ bih-hwis-kerd, -wis- ]

adjective

  1. having whiskers; bearded.
  2. ancient, as a witticism, expression, etc.; passé; hoary:

    a bewhiskered catchword of a bygone era.



bewhiskered

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adjective

  1. having whiskers on the cheeks
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Origin of bewhiskered1

First recorded in 1755–65; be- + whiskered
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Her little pointed, bewhiskered face popped up like the cork out of a bottle.

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Earlier in August, the sky saw a full sturgeon moon, a nod to a dinosaur-esque, bewhiskered fish.

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In 1965 he appeared in a television performance of Billy Smart's Circus alongside "bewhiskered" period acrobats The Herculeans and a collection of trained budgerigars.

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All the more so because both Herschel and Ben are played by Seth Rogen, who does the bewhiskered Yiddish thing and the diffident millennial thing with equal craftiness.

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Still, it’s maybe a fitting combination for a lavishly bewhiskered figure whose wonkishness and warmongering can make him seem like an unlikely hybrid of Ned Flanders and Yosemite Sam.

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