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whiskering

whiskering noun: whiskers generally.

Noun

whiskering (countable and uncountable, plural whiskerings)

  1. Whiskers generally.
    • In front of each ear was something that appeared to be incipient whiskerings.1927, Joseph Storer Clouston, The Lunatic in Love, page 161
  2. The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.
    • Jeans come in various states of distress, but the best are deep indigo without washing, whiskering or ravaging of any kind ($165).2007 October 25, Armand Limnander, “Tangled in Ivy, With a Twist”, in New York Times
  3. A defect of gravure printing characterized by printed areas possessing hairlike tendrils of ink sticking out into non-image areas.
  4. The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.

Forms of whiskering

pluralwhiskerings

Origin of whiskering

From whisker + -ing.

Questions about whiskering

What does whiskering mean?
Whiskering means whiskers generally.
What part of speech is whiskering?
Whiskering is a noun.
What is the plural of whiskering?
The plural of whiskering is whiskerings.

Words near whiskering in the dictionary

  1. whiskeredness
  2. whiskerette
  3. whiskerettes
  4. whiskeries
  5. whiskeriness
  6. whiskering
  7. whiskerings
  8. whiskerino
  9. whiskerinoes
  10. whiskerinos
  11. whiskerless

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