Beaky
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Beaked: having a beak.
"Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big."
- 2 Beak-like: resembling a beak.
"beaky nose"
- 3 Having a nose which resembles a beak.
"beaky face"
- 4 Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak. (of a gesture)
"1929, D. H. Lawrence, The Escaped Cock, published as The Man Who Died, London: Heinemann, 1931, pp. 34-35, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700631h.html And always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest. He watched the queer, beaky motion of the creature as it gobbled into itself the scraps of food; its glancing of the eye of life, ever alert and watchful […]"
Example
More examples"Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big."
Etymology
From beak + -y.
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