whisker

A lifelong personal zeal for Scottish independence energised his mission to shift his cause from a sidebar to the mainstream, and to within a whisker of it actually happening.

They would close their eyes and move their ears and whiskers forward when feeling friendly, or constrict their pupils while flattening their ears and flicking their tongues when feeling aggressive.

“The streak of record-breaking months has come to an end, but only by a whisker,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, said in a statement.

The athlete opts to compete in qualifying rounds with a full set of whiskers before shaving them into a half-beard for the finals.

Stories spread through the city of a bearded man - nicknamed “whiskers” in the Xhosa language - who made people disappear at night.