English Etymology From Latin beccus ‘beak’.
Pronunciation IPA: /'bɛkəl/
Adjective beccal
#:*1997: It faced me…its ominous Beak crank’d open…it quack’d, its eye holding a certain gleam, and began to speak, in a curious Accent, inflected heavily with linguo-beccal Fricatives… (Pynchon, Mason & Dixon)
