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English
Etymology
From be- + busy.
Pronunciation
Verb
bebusy (third-person singular simple present bebusies, present participle bebusying, simple past and past participle bebusied)
- (intransitive or reflexive, rare) To make or be busy; occupy.
1914, H. Roswell Hawley, “Sophomore Year”, in George Washington Patterson, editor, History of the Class of Nineteen-Hundred and Fourteen, Yale College, volume 1, pages 25–26:To continue: the unrated, as distinguished from the unruly, bebusied themselves with furbishing the barren abodes of Durfee, Farnam and Lawrance.