英和和英

形容詞

lizardy (comparative more lizardy, superlative most lizardy)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a lizard.

   Synonyms: lacertian, lacertine, lizardlike

   • 1898, Kenneth Grahame, “The Reluctant Dragon”, in Dream Days‎, London: The Bodley Head, page 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, chapter 12, in The Tree of Man‎, New York: Viking, page 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!