or whiskerando, subs. (common).—A whiskered person: a jocular salutation, ‘Hallo, WHISKERS!’ Also WHISKERY and WHISKERANDOED, adj. [From Don Ferolo WHISKERANDOS in SHERIDAN’S Critic, 1779.]
1834. SOUTHEY, The Doctor, clvi. To what follies and what extravagancies would the WHISKERANDOED macaronies of Bond Street and St. James’s proceed, if the beard once more were, instead of the neckcloth, to ‘make the man.’
1848. THACKERAY, The Book of Snobs, xli. The old lady is as ugly as any lady in the parish, and as tall and WHISKERY as a Grenadier. Ibid. (1862), The Adventures of Philip, xiii. The dumpy, elderly, square-shouldered, squinting, carroty, WHISKERANDO of a warrior who was laying about him so savagely.
