whiskers
whiskers
verbSee Mr. Whiskers
See also: whisker
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- late
- bout it
- get a gift
- okay
- layed
- grubs
- couch-turkey
- keyed
- burps
- blow-out
References in classic literature
Whiskers growled an incoherence deep in his throat and spat into the fire in token that he was not pleased by the question.
"Can it, Fatty, can it," Whiskers muttered wearily.
The Red One
Samuel Whiskers got through a hole in the wainscot, and went boldly down the front staircase to the dairy to get the butter.
"Will not the string be very indigestible, Anna Maria?" inquired Samuel Whiskers.
Original Peter Rabbit Books
Then the Soldier with the Green Whiskers led them through the inner gate and they at once found themselves in the main street of the magnificent Emerald City.
So Jack dismounted, with much difficulty, and a servant led the Saw-Horse around to the rear while the Soldier with the Green Whiskers escorted the Pumpkinhead into the palace, by the front entrance.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
"Then he will soon be free again," replied the Soldier with the Green Whiskers. "Anyone accused of crime is given a fair trial by our Ruler and has every chance to prove his innocence.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
"Italian bookkeeping," said the gentleman of the gray whiskers ironically.
"That's true enough," the gentleman with the gray whiskers chimed in, positively laughing with satisfaction.
Anna Karenina
Guph was so delighted that he forgot all the smarting caused by the pins and the pulling of whiskers. He did not even complain of the treatment he had received, but thanked the Grand Gallipoot and hurried away upon his journey.
The Emerald City of Oz
His whiskers cut off, Noirtier gave another turn to his hair; took, instead of his black cravat, a colored neckerchief which lay at the top of an open portmanteau; put on, in lieu of his blue and high-buttoned frock-coat, a coat of Villefort's of dark brown, and cut away in front; tried on before the glass a narrow-brimmed hat of his son's, which appeared to fit him perfectly, and, leaving his cane in the corner where he had deposited it, he took up a small bamboo switch, cut the air with it once or twice, and walked about with that easy swagger which was one of his principal characteristics.
Count of Monte Cristo
His first thought was that Oz had by accident caught on fire and was burning up; but when he tried to go nearer, the heat was so intense that it singed his whiskers, and he crept back tremblingly to a spot nearer the door.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
As he stopped dead, Mr Lammle, making that gingerous bush of his whiskers to look out of, offered him the word 'Destiny.'
Our Mutual Friend
'I said I'd be here, Sir,' said Kit, patting Whisker's neck.
The Old Curiosity Shop
But all of my own sex - especially one impostor, three or four years my elder, with a red whisker, on which he established an amount of presumption not to be endured - were my mortal foes.
David Copperfield