beey

comparative more beey · superlative most beey

1. informalrareReminiscent of or containing bees.

   Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.

   1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35

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   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.

   1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica”, in The Rural Carolinian, II, page 252

   [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.

   1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review, volume XVIII, page 58

   The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.

   2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190