sideburns
/ˈsʌɪdbəːn/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsʌɪdbəːn/
sideburns
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
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- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Schwa vowel
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- Clear final sound
si - de - burns -> sideburns
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘He had scruffy short, possibly cropped, brown hair with sideburns running down past his ears.’
- ‘I used to worry about it as a teenager, not being able to grow sideburns like other guys in my circle of friends.’
- ‘It was an unlikely boast from the fair-skinned figure with the sideburns and thinning hair.’
- ‘The man was young, olive-skinned, with black hair, sideburns, a moustache, and sparkling blue eyes.’
- ‘He quickly went to shaving, trimming up his sideburns and removing straggling hairs on his chin.’
- ‘There were dozens of men in the crowd who'd clearly gone to considerable effort to cultivate the famous towering quiff and sideburns combo.’
- ‘A composite sketch was released yesterday of a man with dark hair short in front, longer in back long sideburns and a goatee.’
- ‘So if your hair is very short, don't leave your sideburns thick and long.’
- ‘We also have a ban on facial hair, which includes sideburns.’
- ‘On one mission to London he thought it best to grow sideburns and sport a tweed cap.’
- ‘He had blonde unkempt hair but respectably short sideburns, and he wore blue jeans and one of those awful V-neck golfing sweaters.’
- ‘He is 17 or 18 years old, of stocky build and has Afro hair and sideburns.’
- ‘With a full handlebar moustache and sideburns, which took several weeks to grow, he was every bit the memorable family doctor.’
- ‘He had short thick black hair with long sideburns and wore a distinctive gold-coloured summer jacket, zipped up, with black or dark blue joggers or trousers.’
- ‘I invaded the circle of light, speculated about their faces bristling with sideburns and goatees.’
- ‘He has short black hair which is tight and curly, sideburns and a goatee beard.’
- ‘To keep your sideburns trimmed, an electric razor would be most effective.’
- ‘He is white, in his 20s, 5ft 8in, with collar-length, untidy light brown hair and sideburns.’
- ‘He had dark brown longish hair, subtle sideburns, and these soulful, heavy-lidded eyes.’
- ‘Stick to classic sideburns as opposed to the kind that take over your face or have a life of their own.’
Synonyms
beard, bristle, bristles, burnsides, cilium, coiffure, cowlick, cut, down, eyebrow, eyelash, feeler, fiber, filament, fluff, fringe, frizzies, fur, goatee, grass, hair, haircut, hairstyle, lock, mane, mop, moustache, mustache, muttonchops, quill, ruff, shock, side whiskers, sideburn, split ends, strand, stubble, thatch, tress, tuft, vibrissa, villus, whiskers, wig, wool
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