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beebee

beebee is the alternative form of bibi.

Meaning of bibi

Noun

bibi (plural bibis)

  1. (India) A grandmother.
  2. (India, obsolete) A European woman in British India; sometimes a married man's mistress.
    • The bibis of European men were treated in the same way as upper-class Muslim women, that is, they were kept hidden from view and did not mingle socially with men.2010, Stephen Markel, Tushara Bindu Gude, India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, page 59

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Noun

beebee (plural beebees)

  1. A ball bearing.
    • Flicking beebees across the visual field of a frog will increase its rate of tongue-flicking, but one should not infer from this experimental result that a function of frog tongue flicking is to catch beebees.1995, N. S. Thompson, Perspectives in Ethology, volume 11, page 29
    • They were rising from the ground; a swarm of angry bees encircling him in a cloud. As he swung his arms, he felt them bouncing off like tiny beebees. The swarm was, for now, content to hum around him without biting, but reality bit, and fear was born anew.2001, Carl Bilicska, Vengeance, page 35

Forms of beebee

pluralbeebees

Origin of beebee

Phonetic respelling of BB.

Questions about beebee

What does beebee mean?
Beebee means a ball bearing.
What is beebee the alternative form of?
Beebee is the alternative form of bibi.
What part of speech is beebee?
Beebee is a noun.
What is the plural of beebee?
The plural of beebee is beebees.

Words near beebee in the dictionary

  1. beeball
  2. beebalm
  3. beebalms
  4. Beebe
  5. Beebe Plain
  6. beebee
  7. beebees
  8. Beebes
  9. Beeblebroxian
  10. beebread
  11. beebrush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beebee (page history and authors); bibi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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