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beakiness en · NOUN

Etymology

From beaky + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The property of being beaky.
    • But I don't think beakiness goes well with a baby bonnet. 1878, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal - Volume 22, page 271:
    • She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness? 2002, Helen Duncan, Kate Rice: Prospector, →ISBN, page 119:
    • The beakiness of the spout reciprocates the beakiness of the bird. 1985, Peter Dormer, Alison Britton, David Cripps, Alison Britton: a view, page 15:
    • I saw him in one 'turn' or 'do', lying back on the bed, toothless, all beakiness of nose and chin, eyes sunken as if they were not shuddering and blinking in a fearful way. 2013, M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected, →ISBN, page 202:
    • The landscape softens where the border line on the map begins, and the grizzled faces of Afghans, whose heads are sloppily swathed in white turbans, are replaced by the angular beakiness of Pakistanis, who wear narrow slippers and have the thin scornful moustaches of magicians and movie villains. 2011, Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, →ISBN: