Beetling Synonyms

Jutting or overhanging
Synonyms:
  1. juttering
  2. beetle
  3. overhung
  4. pensile
  5. projecting
Be suspended over or hang over
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. overhanging
  2. protruding
  3. projecting
  4. pouching
  5. jutting
  6. bulging
  7. bellying
  8. ballooning
  9. bagging

Beetling Sentence Examples

  • The head is rounded and short, without prominent beetling ridges above the eyes, or a strong crest along the middle line of the back of the skull; and the tusks of the old males are of no very great length and prominence.

  • In old males the eyes are overhung by a beetling penthouse of bone, the hinder half of the middle line of the skull bears a wall-like bony ridge for the attachment of the powerful jaw-muscles, and the tusks, or canines, are of monstrous size, recalling those of a carnivorous animal.

  • The adjective "beetle-browed," and similarly "beetling" (of a cliff), are derived from the name of the insect.

  • A prodigiously long tail, beetling eyebrows with long black hairs, black ears, face, feet and hands, and a general greyish-brown colour of the fur are the distinctive characteristics of the langur.

  • The great head itself has snakes entwined within its beard, wings above its ears, beetling brows and a heavy mustache.