beaky

Adjective

beaky (comparative beakier, superlative beakiest)

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.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   beaklike, beakish

3. Having a nose which resembles a beak.
   • beaky face
   • "[…] 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
4. Made using a beak; (of a sound) produced through a beak. (of a gesture)
   • 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 […]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
   • 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