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# beady

«beady» in Mova's school dictionary: **Small, round and shiny, like a bead; used mostly about eyes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (beady, beadier, beadiest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Small, round and shiny, like a bead; used mostly about eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#m1)

2) (informal) Watching very closely and suspiciously, as in «a beady eye». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, birds, rats and villains have beady eyes; it makes a creature seem sharp, alert and a bit sneaky. Phrase: keep a beady eye on (watch carefully, often a teacher or parent).

### examples

- The crow watched us with its beady black eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x1)
- The teacher kept a beady eye on the back row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x2)
- The rat stared out from the hole with beady eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x3)
- Grandma has a beady eye for mess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x4)
- The doll had little beady eyes made of glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x5)
- Keep a beady eye on your bag at the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x6)
- He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/#x7)

### note

Comparative beadier, superlative beadiest. Mostly used with «eye» or «eyes». It is a little unkind to say a person has beady eyes.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «beady» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/beady/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.