Meaning of beakiness | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being beaky.

uncountable

Examples

“But I don't think⟳ beakiness goes well with a baby bonnet.”

“The beakiness of the spout reciprocates the beakiness of the bird.”

“She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness?”

“The landscape softens where the border⟳ line on the map begins, and the grizzled faces of Afghans, whose heads are sloppily swathed in white turbans, are replaced by the angular beakiness of Pakistanis, who wear⟳ narrow slippers and have⟳ the thin scornful moustaches of magicians and movie villains.”

“I saw⟳ him in one 'turn⟳' or 'do', lying back on the bed, toothless, all beakiness of nose and chin, eyes sunken as if they were not shuddering and blinking in a fearful way.”

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