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beady
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adj 1: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button;
"bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" [syn: beady,
beadlike, buttony, buttonlike]
2: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady,
gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled,
spangly]
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cheeky
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adj 1: offensively bold; "a brash newcomer disputed the age-old
rules for admission to the club"; "a nervy thing to say"
[syn: brash, cheeky, nervy]
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creaky
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adj 1: worn and broken down by hard use; "a creaky shack"; "a
decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction
tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood";
"a woebegone old shack" [syn: creaky, decrepit,
derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone]
2: having a rasping or grating sound; "creaky stairs" [syn:
creaky, screaky]
3: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints";
"rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky,
rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy]
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creepy
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adj 1: annoying and unpleasant; "some creepy kids were bothering
her"
2: causing a sensation as of things crawling on your skin; "a
creepy story"; "I had a creepy-crawly feeling" [syn:
creepy, creepy-crawly]
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dashiki
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n 1: a loose and brightly colored African shirt [syn: dashiki,
daishiki]
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freaky
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adj 1: strange and somewhat frightening; "the whole experience
was really freaky"
2: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
"restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like
a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish
combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the
outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage
antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky,
flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish,
outre]
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leaky
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adj 1: permitting the unwanted passage of fluids or gases ; "a
leaky roof"; "a leaky defense system" [ant: tight]
2: used informally; unable to retain urine
3: prone to communicate confidential information [syn:
blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)]
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peaky
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adj 1: having or as if having especially high-pitched spots;
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass" [syn:
peaky, spiky]
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sneaky
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adj 1: marked by deception; "achieved success in business only
by underhand methods" [syn: sneaky, underhand,
underhanded]
2: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to
avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack";
"stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
[syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy,
surreptitious]
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squeaky
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adj 1: having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made
by a mouse or a rusty hinge [syn: screaky, screechy,
squeaking, squeaky, squealing]
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streaky
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adj 1: marked with or as if with stripes or linear
discolorations; "streaked hair"; "fat legs and dirty
streaky faces" [syn: streaked, streaky]
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leakey
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n 1: English paleontologist (son of Louis Leakey and Mary
Leakey) who continued the work of his parents; he was
appointed director of a wildlife preserve in Kenya but
resigned under political pressure (born in 1944) [syn:
Leakey, Richard Leakey, Richard Erskine Leakey]
2: English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who
discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years
old (1913-1996) [syn: Leakey, Mary Leakey, Mary Douglas
Leakey]
3: English paleontologist whose account of fossil discoveries in
Tanzania changed theories of human evolution (1903-1972)
[syn: Leakey, Louis Leakey, Louis Seymour Bazett
Leakey]
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cliquey
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beachy
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reeky
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tiki
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geikie
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sleeky
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iniki
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