beaky

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbiːki/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
  2. Beak-like: resembling a beak.
    — beaky nose
  3. Having a nose which resembles a beak.
    — 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 […]

词形变化

beakier comparative beakiest superlative

词汇关系

近义词
beaked rostrate rostrated rostellate
衍生词
beakiness
相关词
sneaky beaky

词源

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.
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