beey

beey

See also: bééy and Beey

English

WOTD – 3 March 2012

Etymology

From bee +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bēʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈbiːi/

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 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

reminiscent or containing bees

Arabic: نَحْلِيّ‎ (naḥliyy) Finnish: mehiläismäinen (fi) (reminiscent)

Swedish: biig