Beaty
adjective
(informal) (of music) having a strong rhythm: funky, beaty rock tracks
Historical Examples
When the cheese was fairly out of sight, beaty grew uneasy and skedadled up the street.
Blazing The Way Emily Inez Denny
Some of “Tinker” beaty’s men galloped into sight, fired, galloped on.
Sergeant York And His People Sam Cowan
So Officer beaty picked up the phone and called his superior.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
I like Mrs. S.; Miss beaty is good-humor itself, and does not seem much besides.
The Letters of Jane Austen Jane Austen
A dozen loafers were around the stove and among them Mr. beaty, remarkable principally for his appetite, big feet and good nature.
Blazing The Way Emily Inez Denny
If Eliza cannot go (and she has a cold at present), Miss beaty will be invited to be my companion.
The Letters of Jane Austen Jane Austen
We all met and went ahead, till we passed Huntsville, and camped at a large spring called beaty’s spring.
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee. Davy Crockett
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