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Etymology

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From beetle +‎ -y.

Adjective

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beetly (comparative more beetly, superlative most beetly)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a beetle (the insect).
    • 2009, Dwight Allen, The Typewriter Satyr, page 48:
      It felt like after sex, when the person you had been during sex had slinked away, leaving a beetly shell behind.
  2. beetle-browed
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      Looked around the lounge for tipped-off creditors – one beetly glare and I would have bolted.

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