Dictionary

beaky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈbiːki/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English beak Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English beaky From beak + -y.

Meanings

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. 2011 June 30, The Telegraph:
2. Beak-like: resembling a beak.
   • […] he emerged from the signals room with his drooping mustache, his beaky nose, his stupid, staring eyes […] 1972, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, chapter 25, in H. T. Willetts, transl., August 1914, published 1971, page 238:
   • beaky nose
   • […] 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; 1718, Homer, “Book XV”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume IV, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
3. Having a nose which resembles a beak.
   • "[…] You haven't a nose like mine. I'll be as beaky as Father in ten more years. […]" 1936, L. M. Montgomery, chapter 15, in Anne of Windy Poplars:
   • 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. 1964, William Trevor, chapter 3, in Three Early Novels, Penguin, published 2000, page 22:
   • 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 […]
   • 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. 1942, Emily Carr, “The Cow Yard”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:

Forms

Coordinates

nasal · nasally

Deriveds

beakiness

Relateds

sneaky beaky

Synonyms

rostellate · beaklike · beakish · rostrated · beaked · rostrate