beey
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)
- (informal, rare) Reminiscent of or containing bees.
- 1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica”, in The Rural Carolinian, II, page 252:
- It was the sweetest April-time, / And beey-swarms humm’d thro’ the trees, / And Nature’s voice, in silver rhyme, / Received fresh cadence from the bees.
- 1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love[1], page 35:
- Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.
- 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review[2], volume XVIII, page 58:
- [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.
- 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys[3], page 190:
- The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.
Translations[edit]
reminiscent or containing bees
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Noun[edit]
beey