a. [f. FERRET sb.1 + -Y1.] Resembling a ferret or a ferrets.
1801. Med. Jrnl., V. 15. Indicated by a flushed countenance, ferrety eye.
1876. J. Weiss, Wit, Hum. & Shaks., ii. 54. There is nothing more feretty than your cynic, to whom all objects are game for observation.
1877. Black, Green Past., xi. (1878), 86. The man dried his face, turned, and looked at Balfour with a pair of keen and ferrety eyes, said nothing, and walked off into the kitchen.
1883. G. H. Boughton, Artist Strolls in Holland, in Harpers Mag., LXVI., March, 528/1. Jacob translated for the ferrety old dame.