Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Small, round, and shiny: beady eyes.
- adj. Decorated or covered with beads.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bead-like; small, round, and glittering: applied especially to eyes.
- Covered with or full of beads; having a bead, as ale or other liquor.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
- adj. Bright and penetrating.
- adj. Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
- adj. Characterized by beads.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
- adj. Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
- adj. Characterized by beads.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. covered with beads or jewels or sequins
- adj. small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button
Etymologies
- bead + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“He stopped to look down on a grave smothered in beady tokens, the grave of the last pal to fall.”
“If they’re what I call beady-eyed vegetarians, they do fine.”
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“I seemed to recall his beady little eyes gleaming up at me in appreciation from below the edge of my fan.”
“That was what Toddles called his beady-eyed conductor in retaliation.”
“First it was Kevin Page, casting too beady an eye on Conservative government spending.”
“Kenney's department has its cold and beady eye on Hungary at the moment, precisely because some Roma are arriving here.”
“I see the beady eyes watching, waiting, expectant, with one thing in mind: “I will escape.””
“But, after my bone chilling stare, he ground it while I beady-eyed him.”
“A rooster strutted around with a lordly air, casting a beady eye from side to side as if supervising his serfs.”
“They sit on their Jabba sized behinds all day filling blogs and boards with their invective with one beady eye trained on Fox News.”
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