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beehived

beehived adjective: having, or arranged in, a beehive hairdo. Also the simple past and past participle of beehive.

Adjective

beehived (not comparable)

  1. Having, or arranged in, a beehive hairdo.
    • […] Flo came in with a jingle of keys, swathed in a perfumed mist of hair spray and fresh nail lacquer — every Thursday morning Flo left for the "post office" at eleven A.M. and came back freshly painted and beehived.2006, Elizabeth Letts, Family Planning, page 68
    • He's so bored these days he'd go ten miles to see a dead mule & his new wife, the spun-gold beehived eighty-year-old hussy, speaks in opaque allegories I can never understand […]2011, L. S. Asekoff, Freedom Hill: A Poem, page 7

Also used as

beehived is also the simple past and past participle of beehive.

Origin of beehived

From beehive + -ed.

Questions about beehived

What does beehived mean?
Beehived means having, or arranged in, a beehive hairdo.
What part of speech is beehived?
Beehived is an adjective.

Words near beehived in the dictionary

  1. beehive shelves
  2. Beehive State
  3. Beehive Stater
  4. beehive tomb
  5. beehive tombs
  6. beehived
  7. beehiver
  8. beehivers
  9. beehives
  10. beehives of activity
  11. beehiving

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