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beaky (comparative beakier, superlative beakiest)
- Beaked: having a beak.
- 2011 June 30, The Telegraph:
- Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big.
- Beak-like: resembling a beak.
- 1718, Homer, [Alexander] Pope, transl., “Book XV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume IV, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
- […] Hector thunder'd threats aloud,
And rush'd enraged before the Trojan crowd;
Then swift invades the ships, whose beaky prores
Lay rank'd contiguous on the bending shores;
- 1972, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, chapter 25, in H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, published 1971, page 238:
- […] he emerged from the signals room with his drooping mustache, his beaky nose, his stupid, staring eyes […]
- Having a nose which resembles a beak.
- 1936, L. M. Montgomery, chapter 15, in Anne of Windy Poplars[1]:
- " […] You haven't a nose like mine. I'll be as beaky as Father in ten more years. […] "
- 1964, William Trevor, chapter 3, in Three Early Novels, Penguin, published 2000, page 22:
- The two men, who for more than sixty years had never been very much out of touch, were quite similar in appearance: spare of form, with beaky, weathered faces and strands of whitening hair.
- 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, [2]
- 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 […]
- 1942, Emily Carr, “The Cow Yard”, in The Book of Small:
- If you put your hand on [the hens], they flattened their feathers to their bodies and their bodies down on their eggs and gave beaky growls.
- 1929, D. H. Lawrence, The Escaped Cock, published as The Man Who Died, London: Heinemann, 1931, pp. 34-35, [2]