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beey

/ˈbiːi/

beey adjective: reminiscent of or containing bees.

Adjective

beey (comparative more beey, superlative most beey)

  1. (informal, rare) Reminiscent of or containing bees.
    • 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.1871, P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica”, in The Rural Carolinian, II, page 252
    • Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey, bed.1887, Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love, page 35

beey meaning in Tamil and Arabic

beey in Tamil

தேனீக்களுள்ள, தேனீக்களை ஒத்த

beey in Arabic

reminiscent or containing bees
نَحْلِيّ naḥliyy

Examples of beey in a sentence

  • [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.1905, The Bee-Keepers’ Review, volume XVIII, page 58:
  • The buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey sound was back.2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190:

Forms of beey

comparativemore beey
superlativemost beey

Origin of beey

From bee + -y.

Words that rhyme with beey

Questions about beey

What does beey mean?
Beey means reminiscent of or containing bees.
What is beey in Tamil?
Beey in Tamil is தேனீக்களுள்ள, தேனீக்களை ஒத்த. See Beey meaning in Tamil.
How do you use beey in a sentence?
[Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey” flavor that is simply delicious.
What part of speech is beey?
Beey is an adjective.
How do you pronounce beey?
Beey is pronounced /ˈbiːi/ (UK).

Words near beey in the dictionary

  1. beeware
  2. beeweed
  3. beewolf
  4. beewolves
  5. beewort
  6. beey
  7. beeyard
  8. beeyards
  9. beeyatch
  10. beeyatches
  11. beeyotch

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: beey (page history and authors); beey (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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