humorous. [f. WHISKER, with ending in imitation of Spanish words.] Name of a character (Don Ferolo Whiskerandos) in Sheridan’s play. ‘The Critic’ (1779): hence allusively (more commonly in the form Whiskerando, the -s being taken as sign of pl.), a (heavily) whiskered man. Hence Whiskerandoed a., whiskered.
1807. Sporting Mag., XXIX. 179. The mustachio salute is not only sanctioned now by the dowagers of the whiskerando tribe, but even voted by the young smooth-lipped belles, to be ‘funny enough.’
1831. Jekyll, Corr. (1894), 287. To the great dismay of a whiskerandos, second brother of my lord.
1838. Southey, Doctor, clvi. V. 227. To … what extravagances would the whiskerandoed macaronies of Bond Street … proceed, if the beard … were … to ‘make the man!’
1846. Morning Post, 31 Dec., 6/4. Think of being recommended to drop the brilliant acquaintance of moustachioed sopranos and whiskerandoed tenors for the friendship of people who are merely ‘respectable!’
1894. Stevenson, St. Ives, ii. Some of these old whiskerandos, originally peasants, trained since boyhood in victorious armies,… could ill brook their change of circumstance.
