BEADY
What does "BEADY" mean?
Of eyes, small, round, and glittering, often suggesting sharp or sly attention.
Meanings
- Describing eyes that are small, shining, and watchful, like beads. The rat fixed its beady eyes on the crumb and froze.
Did you know?
- A 'beady' eye traces back to prayer: in Old English a 'bede' was a prayer, and only because people counted prayers on a string did the little spheres - and then the eyes that resemble them - inherit the name.
Word origin
From 'bead' plus '-y', the eyes being likened to small round glass beads; 'bead' itself comes from Old English 'gebed', a prayer, since rosary beads were counted while praying.
Remember it
BEADY eyes look like glassy BEADs strung on a string, with a -Y added.
A little poem
Two black beads behind the hedge stay still -
the garden thinks it's empty. It is not.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why keep a beady eye on a jeweler? Because everything he sees, he wants to string along.
What it teaches
Small watchful attention misses less than a wide, lazy gaze; notice like a bead, not a window.
Quick facts
What does BEADY mean?
Of eyes, small, round, and glittering, often suggesting sharp or sly attention.
Is BEADY a valid word?
Yes — BEADY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BEADY?
BEADY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BEADY come from?
From 'bead' plus '-y', the eyes being likened to small round glass beads; 'bead' itself comes from Old English 'gebed', a prayer, since rosary beads were counted while praying.
What can BEADY teach us?
Small watchful attention misses less than a wide, lazy gaze; notice like a bead, not a window.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.