beetling
/'bi:tliɳ/
Definition
Adjective 1. Jutting or overhanging: Prominently projecting outward or hanging over something else. * Often used to describe natural features like cliffs or rocks, or architectural features like brows.
Examples of Usage
- Adjective:
- The climbers carefully navigated the beetling cliff face.
- His beetling brows gave him a permanently stern expression.
Advanced Usage
- The term is often used in literary or descriptive contexts to evoke a sense of looming, threatening, or impressive overhang.
- It can describe both physical objects and, metaphorically, facial features that project prominently.
Variants and Related Words
- Beetle (verb): To project or overhang; to move quickly.
- The roof beetled over the old porch.
- He beetled off down the street.
- Beetle-browed (adjective): Having thick, projecting, or prominent eyebrows.
- The beetle-browed guard stared at us suspiciously.
Synonyms
- Jutting: Extending out sharply.
- Overhanging: Extending out over.
- Projecting: Sticking out.
- Protruding: Extending beyond the main surface.
Related Phrases
- Beetle off (phrasal verb, informal): To go or move away quickly.
- I saw him beetle off as soon as the meeting ended.
Adjective
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jutting or overhanging
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beetle brows
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