Definitions

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  • noun fashion The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look

Etymologies

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whisker +‎ -ing

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Examples

  • It's called "whiskering", but don't tell the sales girl that; she'll try to set you up and not with a girl.

    Jamie Reidy: Little Boy Blue 2008

  • In addition, the dungarees go through whiskering, color coatings and oven baking that leaves them soft and rumpled, like they've just been air-dried on a clothesline.

    Guy Blue Heaven Ray A. Smith 2011

  • The site, owned by Emeryville, Calif.-based Archetype Solutions Inc., had plenty of options for styles, back pockets and even finishing treatment sanding, whiskering, distressing, for example.

    Ordering Jeans Straight, With a Touch of Stretch Alina Dizik 2010

  • I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.

    What if No One's Watching?: February 2008 Archives 2008

  • I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.

    Outfit 02/15/08 (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

  • I'm wearing my New York & Company West Side jeans, which I am really beginning to hate the whiskering pisses me off.

    Outfit 02/15/08 (What if No One's Watching?) 2008

  • Until Barack Obama decides to cultivate some whiskering under his nose or Nancy Pelosi pulls a Frida Kahlo, it is too soon to declare the return of the political mustache.

    Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow 2008

  • For the past few years, the denim industry had been leaning toward easy-to-wear boot cuts and unique and expensive finishes, from precise whiskering at the tops of the thighs to specially installed wear at the hems.

    Fall Denim Do's 2006

  • There have been periods in the history of man when I, too, would probably have cultivated some form of whiskering.

    The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

  • It was snowing, and the cold had nipped and yellowed his meagre face between its slight grey whiskering.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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  • So says Wiktionary: The fading of creases in blue jeans, especially around the crotch; often added artificially in order to simulate a "worn" look.

    April 7, 2011

  • Ruzuzu lists her location as 'the crease in the map'.

    April 8, 2011

  • Do bilbies have whiskers?

    April 8, 2011

  • *gets twitchy*

    April 8, 2011

  • *grabs three or four whiskers and pulls*

    April 8, 2011

  • Ow!

    April 8, 2011