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beetly en · ADJ

Etymology

From beetle + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).
   • It felt like after sex, when the person you had been during sex had slinked away, leaving a beetly shell behind. 2009, Dwight Allen, The Typewriter Satyr, page 48:
2. beetle-browed
   • Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted. 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

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