swarmy
adjEtymology From swarm + -y.
1
Of bees: inclined to swarm.
- There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6:
2
Swarming with people or activity; teeming.
- This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian note-books:
3
Slang, Of a person Unscrupulous, sleazy, sneaky.
- Derived terms
- swarminess