beetly

English

Etymology

From beetle +‎ -y.

Adjective

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.

Anagrams

• Betley