beetling

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Synonyms for beetling

adj sticking out; conspicuous

adjective. dangling

adjective. hanging

adjective. sticking out

beating tool, Old English bietel, from Proto-Germanic *bautilo-z, from *bautan "to beat" (see beat (v.)).

He was like a beetling mountain, always hanging over my head.

Entered also Mordaunt Merrilac, as beetling of brow as ever.

He rose majestically as Fischko entered and turned on him a beetling frown.

The old Commoner scowled, and his beetling brows hid for a moment his eyes.

Drawing nearer, they get under the shadow of its beetling bluffs.

The Lady of the Crags throws herself from the beetling heights!

There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.

The beetling wall which it surmounted was named "Log Cabin Cliff."

The birds began to twitter in the trees of the beetling woods.

He looked searchingly at his daughter from beneath his beetling brows.