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bebusy

/bɪˈbɪzi/

bebusy verb: to make or be busy; occupy.

Verb

bebusy (third-person singular simple present bebusies, present participle bebusying, simple past and past participle bebusied)

  1. (intransitive, rare, reflexive) To make or be busy; occupy.
    • The whole composition or text is manly, they are not bebusied about Rhetorike flowers.1613 [1580], Michel de Montaigne, quoting Seneca the Younger, “Vpon some verses of Virgill”, in John Florio, transl., Essays Written in French by Michael Lord of Montaigne […], page 490
    • There is no time in this month to be spent in idleness. Prudent husbandmen will bebusy and suffer none of their domestics to lounge away their hours as though time was made for sluggards only.1811, Robert Bailey Thomas, The Farmer’s Almanack […], May 1814, Farmer’s Calendar

Forms of bebusy

third-person singular presentbebusies
present participlebebusying
past participlebebusied
pastbebusied

Origin of bebusy

From be- + busy.

Questions about bebusy

What does bebusy mean?
Bebusy means to make or be busy; occupy.
What part of speech is bebusy?
Bebusy is a verb.
How do you pronounce bebusy?
Bebusy is pronounced /bɪˈbɪzi/.
What is the past tense of bebusy?
The past tense of bebusy is bebusied.

Words near bebusy in the dictionary

  1. bebump
  2. bebung
  3. bebungs
  4. bebury
  5. beburying
  6. bebusy
  7. bebusying
  8. bebuttoned
  9. BEC
  10. bec de corbin
  11. Becaa

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