beakiness

English

Etymology

beaky +‎ -ness

Noun

beakiness (uncountable)

1. The property of being beaky.
   • 1878, Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal - Volume 22, page 271:

     But I don't think beakiness goes well with a baby bonnet.

   • 1985, Peter Dormer, Alison Britton, David Cripps, Alison Britton: a view, page 15:

     The beakiness of the spout reciprocates the beakiness of the bird.

   • 2002, Helen Duncan, Kate Rice: Prospector, →ISBN, page 119:

     She became a momentary captive of Campbell's, wondering where was his beakiness, his surliness?

   • 2011, Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia, →ISBN:

     The landscape softens where the border line on the map begins, and the grizzled faces of Afghans, whose heads are sloppily swathed in white turbans, are replaced by the angular beakiness of Pakistanis, who wear narrow slippers and have the thin scornful moustaches of magicians and movie villains.

   • 2013, M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected, →ISBN, page 202:

     I saw him in one 'turn' or 'do', lying back on the bed, toothless, all beakiness of nose and chin, eyes sunken as if they were not shuddering and blinking in a fearful way.