beeish en · ADJ
Etymology
From bee + -ish.
Meanings
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Resembling or characteristic of bees.
We're definitely bees. We're very beeish indeed. Isn't that right, Rolf the Bee?
2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 61:And then this tiny thunderer of flowers, / Quite, quite subdued, let down a string of tears, / (Little they were, but full of beeish truth,) […]
1851, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems, page 72:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more beeish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most beeish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |