beetly

B3E1E1T1L1Y4

adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).

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Meanings

adjectivebeetly (comparative more beetly, superlative most beetly)

comparative more beetly · superlative most beetly

  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

Origin

From beetle + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Betley
Cite this entry
APA

beetly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beetly

MLA

“beetly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beetly. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beetly,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beetly.

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