beaky
Collocations
4ADJ.
lay, new
VERB + BEAKY
ships
BEAKY + NOUN
co-stars, nose, prores, rank'd
PREP.
about, in
Definitions
adj
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.
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;
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. […]"
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.
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3Jim Carrey tells John Hiscock about his beaky new co-stars in 'Mr Popper's Penguins' and how he made it big.
Wiktionarybeaky nose
Wiktionary[…] 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;
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