beeishness

noun

beeishness

noun

Etymology From beeish + -ness.

1

The quality or characteristic of being beeish.

  • Why should this accusation carry so much more sting with it than "beeishness"?1907, British Bee Journal, volume 35, page 29:
  • […] 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.2004, Ian Buchanan, Marcel Swiboda, Deleuze and Music, page 11:
1 more example
  • My bees are the most properly beeish and bee-like bees in all of beeishness!2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 41:

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