beetly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]beetly (comparative more beetly, superlative most beetly)
- Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).
- 2009, Dwight Allen, The Typewriter Satyr, page 48:
- It felt like after sex, when the person you had been during sex had slinked away, leaving a beetly shell behind.
- beetle-browed
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.