beey

adj

beey

adj

UK /ˈbiːi/

Etymology From bee + -y.

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:

2 more examples

[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. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, beey, mosquitoey than it had before.2008, Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys, page 190:

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