beaky
/ˈbiːki
/adjective informal
1(Of a person’s nose) resembling a bird’s beak; hooked: her long beaky nose seemed to quiver...
- With his brightly coloured breeches, beaky nose and piercing eyes, he must have resembled a loquacious and quick-witted parrot.
- There are rows and rows of them, mostly with the same beaky nose and a well-groomed, cosmopolitan, upper middle class air.
- Aspiring actors, the boys are confident they could make it big in Hollywood - if only they could do something about their crooked teeth, weak chins, beaky noses and acne-pocked skin.
1.1(Of a person) having a beaky nose: a small, determined, beaky man...
- Cornell, a lean, beaky charmer of a boss, would have made an amiable barrister.
- It's been almost twenty years, I think, since I last saw Josh: a beaky, blinking, owl-faced artist, who lived in a crumbling East Anglian rectory.
- Clear eyed, with a smart executive suit and a softly spiked hairstyle, he looks like a well-preserved businessman, a pair of small square glasses emphasising his beaky features.
Rhymes
- grid computing
- gridder
- griddle
- griddle cake
- G-ride
- gridiron
- gridlock
- gridlocked
- grid map
- grid reference
- grief
- grief counselling
- grief counsellor
- griefer
- griefing
- grief-stricken
- Grieg, Edvard
- Grier, Robert Cooper
- Grierson, John
- grievance
- grievance procedure
- grieve
- griever
- grievous
- grievous bodily harm