beccal
English
Etymology
From Latin beccus (“beak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛkəl/
Adjective
beccal (not comparable)
- pertaining to a beak or bill
- 1997: It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives… (Pynchon, Mason & Dixon)