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bewdy | beady |

As a noun bewdy

is .

As an interjection bewdy

is .

As an adjective beady is

resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.

bewdy

English

Noun

(bewdies)
  • * 1933 , Blackwood's Magazine , Volume 233, page 350,
  • “Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”
  • * 1936 , The American Caravan , Volume 5, page 625,
  • This was bewdy .
  • * 2008 , Nage Archer, Slave Heart , page 189,
  • Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy , pretty as a rosella.
  • (Australia, informal) A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
  • * 1987 , , John Larkin, Chipp , page 35,
  • The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It?s a bewdy .’
  • * 1993 , , The Lonely Hunter , page 15,
  • ‘Look at this bewdy .’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
  • * 1997 , Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull , page 94,
  • But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.
  • * 2000 , , page 172,
  • ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don?t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
  • * 2004 , Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings , page 97,
  • Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.

    Derived terms

    * you bewdy (interjection)

    See also

    * bonzer (adjective)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday.'' — ''Bewdy , mate!
  • * 1993 , Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam , page 124,
  • The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy , you showed him.’
  • * 2009 , Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash , page 6,
  • Bewdy! ” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.
  • * 2011 , , Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court , page 123,
  • ‘Listen, I?ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I?ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
    ‘Tomorrow? Bewdy ,’ said Mallon.

    beady

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Resembling beads; small, round, and gleaming.
  • * Thackeray
  • beady eyes
  • (of a look) Bright and penetrating.
  • Covered or ornamented with, or as if with, beads.
  • Characterized by beads.
  • beady liquor

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