beaverly
adjEtymology From beaver + -ly.
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Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike
- "[…] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail."1892, Rolf Boldrewood, The Squatter's Dream:
- Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods.1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs:
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- Tao The Ching, the Upanishads, or Ojibway creation tales it's not owing to any sense of piety or to the beaverly enthusiasms of a pedant, but because of an ardent and abiding curiosity.1997, Steven Heighton, The Admen Move on Lhasa: