beetly

adj — 2 senses

beetly

adj

Etymology From beetle + -y.

1

Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).

  • It felt like after sex, when the person you had been during sex had slinked away, leaving a beetly shell behind.2009, Dwight Allen, The Typewriter Satyr, page 48:
2

beetle-browed

  • Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN:

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