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Small, round and shiny
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beady
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Word definitions for beady in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES beady eyes (= small round and bright, and noticing a lot of things ) ▪ His beady eyes darted around the room. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN eye ▪ Kelpie looked at.her with his bright beady eyes , and then suddenly ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in reference to eyes, 1826, from bead (n.) + -y (2). Related: Beadily ; beadiness .
Usage examples of beady.
It was no sorcery, nor a monster, but a bull aurochs twice the size of the largest ox Saban had ever seen: a creature of huge muscle, black hide, sharp horns and beady eyes.
With a few silver lines at the temples, Master Flink had hair and beard as black as his beady little eyes.
With him was a short, rotund Myal with a shaggy black and gold mane that hung over his dark, beady eyes.
Covent Garden Opera, or on a barrel organ, I always think of Tombo, with his woolly hair, his beady eyes, and glistening teeth.
Queen Vela had dull reddish hair, beady eyes, painfully gaudy taste in gowns, and seemed excessively fond of jewelry.
When Violetta scratched her legs on the blackberry bushes at the bottom of the garden, she lay down on the grass and we watched the bright bubbles of beady blood as they pushed up through the slits in the skin.
Each strand of its writhing hair was as thick as an eel with beady little eyes and a snapping mouth.
Like most people in Medicine Creek, Corrie went out of her way to avoid meeting Brushy Jim, yet he looked just the same as she remembered: a mass of pale red hair and beard that sprouted from his entire face, leaving nothing visible but two beady black eyes, a pair of lips, and a patch of forehead.
His revolver unready, Joe saw murder in the beady eyes of the snarly, flatnosed man who flung upon him.
Chief Barlow, hunched forward, his undershot jaw clenched on a cigar stub, regarded Larry steadily with his beady, autocratic eyes.
Their eyes were less joyful but slightly beadier, so it was something of an even trade.
Detective Constable David Sparkington, owner of the beadier pair of eyes.
An underpaid sleuth with a cubby-hole and a nightstick and a remit to keep one eye on the shifty characters who walked in off the street and an even beadier eye on the dodgy ones who worked there.
He found himself looking into the darkest, beadiest, most animal-like eyes he had ever seen on another human being, so bestial they reminded him of the eyes of bears.
Jim Bob edged on around the doorway into the kitchen, where he was safe from one of her beadiest, unblinkingest stares to date.