swarmy

swarmy

English

Etymology

swarm +‎ -y

Adjective

swarmy (comparative swarmier, superlative swarmiest)

1. Of bees: inclined to swarm.
   • 2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees (page 6)

     There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.

2. Swarming with people or activity; teeming.
   • 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian note-books

     This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.