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whiskerings

whiskerings is the plural of whiskering.

Meaning of whiskering

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.

Questions about whiskerings

What is whiskerings the plural of?
Whiskerings is the plural of whiskering.

Words near whiskerings in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiskerings (page history and authors); whiskering (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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