beaverly

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English

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Etymology

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From beaver +‎ -ly.

Adjective

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beaverly (comparative more beaverly, superlative most beaverly)

  1. Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike
    • 1892, Rolf Boldrewood, The Squatter's Dream:
      " […] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail."
    • 1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs:
      Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods.
    • 1997, Steven Heighton, The Admen Move on Lhasa:
      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.
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