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Wicker vs Whisker - What's the difference?

wicker | whisker |

As nouns the difference between wicker and whisker

is that wicker is a wizard while whisker is that part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.

wicker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
  • Wickerwork.
  • * Chapman
    • Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.

    Derived terms

    * wickerwork * rewicker * Wicker Man

    See also

    * basket * cradle English terms with homophones

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of wickerwork.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
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    • whisker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
  • * 2003 , Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories
    • He licked my ass cheek, then rubbed his face across my butt. I winced as his two-day whiskers rubbed the welts but said nothing. Then he growled and I felt his teeth digging into me, crushing, tearing, sinking deep and tight into my battered, stinging ass at the same time that he shoved three fingers deep into my cunt.''
  • A hair of the beard.
  • One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
  • (colloquial) The (very small) distance between two things
  • * It missed falling on your foot by a whisker .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=May 14 , author=Peter Scrivener , title=Sunderland 1 - 3 Wolverhampton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Boosted by their reward, Wolves continued to push forward and Jamie O'Hara came within a whisker of doubling the lead, smashing a 25-yard effort on to the bar. }}
  • (nautical) spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
  • (statistics) a graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot
  • One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
  • (label) A small that forms on metal.

    • Derived terms

    * cat’s whiskers

    See also

    * (wikipedia "whisker") *