beans
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /biːnz/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iːnz
Noun
beans
- plural of bean
Noun
beans pl (plural only)
- (slang, urban) Pills; drugs in pill form.
- (slang, vulgar) Testes.
- (slang, chiefly in the negative) An insignificant value or amount.
- Synonyms: hill of beans, row of pins; see also Thesaurus:nothing
- 1999, Ozzie Jurock, Forget about… “Location, Location, Location!”: The Definitive Real Estate Investor Guide for the New Millennium, →ISBN, page 159:
- In a fast changing interest rate environment – particularly when rates rise fast – your verbal agreement isn’t worth beans.
- 2012, Bob Altemeyer, “Dogmatism and Authoritarianism”, in Don Ambrose; Robert J. Sternberg, editors, How Dogmatic Beliefs Harm Creativity and Higher-Level Thinking, →ISBN, page 62:
- But social confirmation doesn’t amount to beans when it comes to knowing the truth.
- (slang, archaic) Money.
Verb
beans
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bean
References
- (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- BANES, Banes, Benas, banes, basen, besan, nabes, nesba
Latin
Etymology
Present participle of beō.
Participle
beāns (genitive beantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- blessing, gladdening, enriching
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | beāns | beantēs | beantia | ||
Genitive | beantis | beantium | |||
Dative | beantī | beantibus | |||
Accusative | beantem | beāns | beantēs beantīs | beantia | |
Ablative | beante beantī1 | beantibus | |||
Vocative | beāns | beantēs | beantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.