Meanings
- not comparableHaving fins.
The sky now belonged to the Soviets, and the befinned automobiles that promised to take consumers there seemed silly and indulgent.
2013, David Gartman, Auto-Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design1 more example
... only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin’ tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell befinned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet ...
2019, Robert Eggers, Max Eggers, The Lighthouse (motion picture), spoken by Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), set in Maine during the 1890's with dialogue written to reflect the time period
Origin
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befinned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befinned
“befinned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befinned. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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