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beesting

beesting is the alternative form of beestings.

beesting is the alternative form of bee sting.

Meaning of beestings

Noun

beestings pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.
    • [W]ith thy Sickle reap the rankeſt land: / And miniſter the Blade, vvith bounteous hand. / Nor be vvith harmful parſimony vvon / To follovv vvhat our homely Sires have done; / VVho fill'd the Pail vvith Beeſtings of the Covv: / But all her Udder to the Calf allovv.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 104, lines...
    Synonyms:
    beest, colostrum

Meaning of bee sting

Noun

bee sting (plural bee stings)

  1. A hypodermic puncture from a bee, resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of the stinger.
    Synonyms:
    bee bite
  2. (in plural, slang) Very small breasts.

Forms of beesting

pluralbeestings

Questions about beesting

What is beesting the alternative form of?
Beesting is the alternative form of beestings.

Words near beesting in the dictionary

  1. beesoms
  2. Beeson
  3. beesona
  4. beesonas
  5. beest
  6. beesting
  7. beestings
  8. Beeston
  9. Beeston with Bittering
  10. Beestone
  11. Beestonian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beesting (page history and authors); beestings (page history and authors); bee sting (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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