beaverly

English

Etymology

From beaver +‎ -ly.

Adjective

beaverly (comparative more beaverly, superlative most beaverly)

1. Like, relating to, or befitting a beaver; beaverlike
   • 1892, Rolf Boldrewood, The Squatter's Dream:

     " […] Great idea, isn't it? I wonder how long they would take to Darwinize into webbed feet and a beaverly breadth of tail."

   • 1963, The Canadian Forum: A Monthly Journal of Literature and Public Affairs:

     Indeed, they are already doing so with all the complacent industry of beavers and the beaverly repetition of aims and methods.

   • 1997, Steven Heighton, The Admen Move on Lhasa:

     Tao The Ching, the Upanishads, or Ojibway creation tales it's not owing to any sense of piety or to the beaverly enthusiasms of a pedant, but because of an ardent and abiding curiosity.