lizardy
adjEtymology From lizard + -y.
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Resembling or characteristic of a lizard.
- “It’s a lizardy sort of Beast,” I explained. “Charlotte says it’s a dragon, but she doesn’t really know much about beasts.”1898, Kenneth Grahame, “The Reluctant Dragon”, in Dream Days, London: The Bodley Head, page 153:
- Now he began to move his tongue between his dry lips in little lizardy motions,1955, Patrick White, chapter 12, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 171:
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- I demand to know where that funny winged lizardy creature came from — and where it went! America wants to know!2005, Gregory Maguire, Elaine Clayton, One Final Firecracker: