beeishness

English

Etymology

beeish +‎ -ness

Noun

beeishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or characteristic of being beeish.
    • 1907, British Bee Journal, volume 35, page 29:
      Why should this accusation carry so much more sting with it than "beeishness"?
    • 2004, Ian Buchanan, Marcel Swiboda, Deleuze and Music, page 11:
      […] you can create a costume that is a facsimile of a bee, or you can attach a couple of yellow and black ribbons to your skirt and perhaps put some antennae-like things in your hair and thereby call to mind a certain beeishness.
    • 2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 41:
      My bees are the most properly beeish and bee-like bees in all of beeishness!
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