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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whiskered or bearded person.
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Examples
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Captain Hicks would have allowed any mortal man, any German student, any French tourist, any Prussian whiskerando, to do a harm to Miss Fanny!
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One whiskerando says that he hears Summit is all upset on account of
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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One whiskerando says that he hears Summit is all upset on account of Elder
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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Why man, should you wed Barbara Standish and raise a hand upon her as I've seen you do upon your daughters, woman-grown, I'd not answer but she'd have your life's blood for it; and if you bade her stint the measure of the corn she sold to your neighbors, she'd quit your roof and you, before you could say whiskerando!
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He was wakened by a savage whiskerando of the other watch, who, seizing him by his waistband, dragged him most indecorously out, furiously denouncing him for a skulker.
Israel Potter Herman Melville 1855
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How plainly, thought he, did that old whiskerando yonder betray a consciousness of ill desert.
The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855
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Lord Talboys 'return thither to place herself under his lordship's protection; as if the enormous Bowman was not protector sufficient for her ladyship; and as if Captain Hicks would have allowed any mortal man, any German student, any French tourist, any Prussian whiskerando, to do
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Thus shut in, its hatchways looked like the entrance to deep vaults or mines; especially as her men were wheeling out of her hold some kind of ore, which might have been gold ore, so scrupulous were they in evening the bushel measures, in which they transferred it to the quay; and so particular was the captain, a dark-skinned whiskerando, in a Maltese cap and tassel, in standing over the sailors, with his pencil and memorandum-book in hand.
Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855
sionnach commented on the word whiskerando
a whiskered person.
February 5, 2008
yarb commented on the word whiskerando
"There was a lane branching to the left before you reached Jacques' house, leafy, no more than a carttrack at first, then a switchback, and somewhere along that lane to the right, not five minutes' walk, waited a little cool nameless cantina with horses probably tethered outside, and a huge white tomcat sleeping below the counter of whom a whiskerando would say: "He ah work all night mistair and sleep all day!" And this cantina would be open."
- Lowry, Under the Volcano
June 25, 2011
milosrdenstvi commented on the word whiskerando
see also whiskeranto.
June 25, 2011
qms commented on the word whiskerando
Pete Seeger: 1919-2014
In youth he seemed a nestling with banjo,
Seeger chirping an eager glissando,
In age a gray owl,
His voice grown a growl,
A kindly but righteous whiskerando.
February 11, 2014
michaelt42 commented on the word whiskerando
I'll buy the Sheridan theory!
February 11, 2014
Texchanchan commented on the word whiskerando
From "The French Revolution" by Carlyle: "There is no deliverance, then? Thick stone walls answer, None—Has King Louis no friends? Men of action, of courage grown desperate, in this his extreme need? King Louis's friends are feeble and far. Not even a voice in the coffeehouses rises for him. At Meot the Restaurateur's no Captain Dampmartin now dines; or sees death-doing whiskerandoes on furlough exhibit daggers of improved structure!... .(See Prudhomme's Newsnaper, Revolutions de Paris in Hist. Parl. xxiii. 318.)"
November 6, 2016
Texchanchan commented on the word whiskerando
O. Henry "The Ransom of Red Chief" "I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the postoffice and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade. One whiskerando says that he hears Summit is all upset on account of Elder Ebenezer Dorset's boy having been lost or stolen."
November 6, 2016