a. [f. BEAVER1 + -ISH1.] Like a beaver in nature or habit; merely instinctive.
1850. Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., iv. 3. All intellect … will tend to become beaverish. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., I. IV. viii. 473. Irrational man-mountains, of the beaverish or beaverish-vulpine sort.
