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beetly

beetly adjective: resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).

Adjective

beetly (comparative more beetly, superlative most beetly)

  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

Forms of beetly

comparativemore beetly
superlativemost beetly

Origin of beetly

From beetle + -y.

Questions about beetly

What does beetly mean?
Beetly means resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).
What part of speech is beetly?
Beetly is an adjective.

Words near beetly in the dictionary

  1. beetleskins
  2. beetleweed
  3. beetling
  4. beetlings
  5. beetloaf
  6. beetly
  7. Beeton
  8. Beetonian
  9. Beetown
  10. beetrave
  11. beetraves

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