beeish

English

Etymology

From 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?

Derived terms

• beeishness