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beady

ˈbidi
WordNet
  1. (adj) beady
    covered with beads or jewels or sequins
  2. (adj) beady
    small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button "bright beady eyes","black buttony eyes"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Beady
    Characterized by beads; as, beady liquor.
  2. Beady
    Covered or ornamented with, or as with, beads.
  3. Beady
    Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. beady
    Bead-like; small, round, and glittering: applied especially to eyes.
  2. beady
    Covered with or full of beads; having a bead, as ale or other liquor.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Beady
    bead-like, small and bright (of eyes): covered with beads or bubbles
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. bed, gebed, a prayer, from biddan, to pray. See Bid.

Usage in the news

They were on there for like five seconds before Elisabeth Hasselbeck's beady eyes zeroed in on the newly wedded heiress's ring finger and found it shockingly bare. nymag.com

Only When I Dance Directed by Beadie Finzi Film Movement Opens July 2, Cinema Village. villagevoice.com

COLUMBIA — Stare at the walls of Curt Shahan's Woodland Wonders Taxidermy studio and more than 100 pairs of beady eyes will stare right back at you. columbiamissourian.com

The beady black eyes peer down from a stuffed, mounted, and antlered head above the bar at the U Street NW barbecue joint American Ice Company. ashingtoncitypaper.com

Even his face is offputting – the weird giant baby head, the soulless beady eyes, the bratty sneer of entitlement. fwweekly.com

Digital Underground, Beady Eye, Erykah Badu. laweekly.com

Yes, Alex Karev, otherwise bad boy of Seattle Mercy Grace hospital on ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" is a beady-eyed rat fink . minotdailynews.com

Born on May 24, 1914, she was the daughter of the late Franklin Jackson Terrell and Beadie Melissa McMillan Terrell. valdostadailytimes.com

They're all over the city's underground subway stations and their glowing, beady eyes are often seen in the trash that has been put on the sidewalk for pick up. 1037theloon.com

But Beady Eye frontman and former Oasis member Liam Gallagher doesn't think Harry did anything wrong — in fact, he'd like to be invited next time. q103albany.com

Beady Eye / Photo by Getty Images. spin.com

I love his beady little eyes. cjr.org

PETALUMA, Calif — A Chinese crested's short snout, beady eyes and white whiskers earned it the title of World's Ugliest Dog at the annual contest in Northern California on Friday. thexradio.com

Usage in literature

It was manned by a muscular little man with beady eyes and thinning black hair. "Occasion for Disaster" by Gordon Randall Garrett

While the Hindu played that weird music on the pipes its head with the two beady eyes and flickering tongue, moved slowly to and fro. "The Sign of Silence" by William Le Queux

The beady orbs started slowly in their sockets, rolling from side to side. "The Missourian" by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

Their eyes met; his shifting, beady eyes were held forcibly with many a twitching, by her gray eyes. "In the Heart of a Fool" by William Allen White

It raised its oval head, fixing her with its beady, bright eyes. "Chicken Little Jane on the Big John" by Lily Munsell Ritchie

An expression of surprise, almost of admiration, flickered in the beady eyes of the Zar and was gone. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930" by Various

The man was leaner and lighter, bony-faced and beady-eyed. "Anything You Can Do" by Gordon Randall Garrett

It drenched the beady-eyed, flat-iron head, flooded the swaying neck and spattered the thick scaly coils. "Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters" by Edwin L. Sabin

His beady eyes glanced around nervously. "Astounding Stories, July, 1931" by Various

My Aunt Beadie wus sold on de block in Fayetteville. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2" by Work Projects Administration

Usage in poetry
His beady eye is bitter hard;
Right mockingly he squints at me;
As critic might review a bard
His scorn is withering to see.
Slowly they crept down the ladder
—Prepared for the " Promised Land " —
There stood the beady-eyed ruffian,
The carving-knife still in his hand!
There was whisp'ring and fumbling behind the door,
Then slowly—the bolt drew back ;
And a face —all whiskers and beady eyes —
Peered at them through the crack.
Oh, wondrous beauty of the morning skies!
Oh, wide green fields with beady dew impearled!
The lark soars upward, singing as she flies,
Oh, wave of free, swift wings, oh, happy world!
The regimental jackdaw 'as a bright an' beady eye;
'E sits upon the tent-pole an' 'e winks both bold an' sly:
'E says: "You bloomin' ediot, you, to go an' get C.B.!"
An' I wish I was the jackdaw, an' I wish that 'e was me!
A whiskered, beady-eyes monster, grisly and grim of hue;
Savage and slinking and silent, born of the dark and dirt;
Dazed by the glare and the glitter, it wavered a moment or two -
Then like a sinister shadow, it vanished… 'neath Millie's skirt.