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Beakish vs Peakish - What's the difference?

beakish | peakish |

As adjectives the difference between beakish and peakish

is that beakish is resembling a beak while peakish is (colloquial) of or relating to a peak or peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

beakish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a beak.
  • *1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber & Faber 2003, p. 90:
  • *:Apart from a slightly beakish nose he was decidedly handsome.
  • *2000 , (Fay Weldon), The Bulgari Connection :
  • *:But his friendly, short-sighted eyes and beakish nose were traditional enough, and his hair was sparse, as befitted a man of nearly seventy.

    • peakish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) Of or relating to a peak or peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
    • Her peakish spring. — Drayton.
    His peakish dialect. — Bishop Hall.
  • (colloquial) Having peaks; peaked.
  • (colloquial) Having thin or sharp features, as from sickness; sickly; peaky.
    • (Webster 1913)