beey

See also: bééy and Beey

English

WOTD – 3 March 2012

Etymology

From bee +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: bēʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈbiːi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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^[1], page 35:

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

   • 1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review‎^[2], volume XVIII, page 58:

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

   • 2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys‎^[3], 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

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəʔəj/, [ˈbɨː.ʔɨi̯]
• Hyphenation: be‧ey

Noun

bëëy (plural bebbeey)

1. house