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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