swarmy

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adjective

Of bees: inclined to swarm.

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Meanings

adjectiveswarmy (comparative swarmier, superlative swarmiest)

comparative swarmier · superlative swarmiest

  1. Of bees: inclined to swarm.

    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.

    2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6
  2. Swarming with people or activity; teeming.

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

    1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian note-books
  3. slangUnscrupulous, sleazy, sneaky.

Origin

From swarm + -y.

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Chicago

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