lizardy
English
Etymology
lizard + -y
Adjective
lizardy (comparative more lizardy, superlative most lizardy)
- Resembling or characteristic of a lizard.
- Synonyms: lacertian, lacertine, lizardlike
- 1898, Kenneth Grahame, “The Reluctant Dragon” in Dream Days, London: The Bodley Head, p. 153,
- “It’s a lizardy sort of Beast,” I explained. “Charlotte says it’s a dragon, but she doesn’t really know much about beasts.”
- 1955, Patrick White, The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, Chapter 12, p. 171,
- Now he began to move his tongue between his dry lips in little lizardy motions,
- 2005, Gregory Maguire, Elaine Clayton, One Final Firecracker
- I demand to know where that funny winged lizardy creature came from — and where it went! America wants to know!