beaut

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Something or someone that is physically attractive.

   • That new car of yours is a real beaut.
2. 2

   Something that is a remarkable example of its type.

   • Bruno lifted his left hand out of the bucket in order to point out to Catfoot a lump, the size of a darning egg, over his left eye. […] "Ain't it a beaut, Cat? It's where he butted me."
   • In his most famous quip, La Guardia once remarked, “When I make a mistake it's a beaut!”
   • Both of them were used to long surveillance stints. This looked like it might be a beaut.
3. 3

   Beautiful, splendid.

   • An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.
   • It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.
   • She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.

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