lizardy

comparative more lizardy · superlative most lizardy

1. Resembling or characteristic of a lizard.

   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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   “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

   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

   Synonyms: lacertian, lacertine, lizardlike