beeish

English

Etymology

bee +‎ -ish

Adjective

beeish (comparative more beeish, superlative most beeish)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of bees.
    • 1851, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems, page 72:
      And then this tiny thunderer of flowers, / Quite, quite subdued, let down a string of tears, / (Little they were, but full of beeish truth,) […]
    • 2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 61:
      We're definitely bees. We're very beeish indeed. Isn't that right, Rolf the Bee?

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