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beeish en · ADJ

Etymology

From bee + -ish.

Meanings

  1. 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

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more beeish Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most beeish Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

beeishness