beady

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From bead +‎ -y.

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beady (comparative beadier or more beady, superlative beadiest or most beady)

  1. Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair [], London: Bradbury and Evans [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes
    • 1902, Robert Marshall Grade, The Haunted Major:
      I shivered in every limb, and a cold beady dew sprang out on my temples as I stood with eyes riveted on the spectral figure before me.
  2. Bright and penetrating. (of eyes or a look)
  3. Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
  4. Characterized by beads.
    beady liquor

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