beey

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See also: bééy and Beey

English

WOTD – 3 March 2012

Etymology

From bee +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)

  1. (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, page 35:
      Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.
    • 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review‎, volume XVIII, page 58:
      [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.
    • 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys‎, 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

Kankanaey

Noun

beey

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