Bee Definition
- bumblebee
- husking
- busy oneself with
- hound something
- hound somebody
- be fussy about
- be obsessed with
- function
- social
- harvest home
- work party
- notion
- megrim
- humor
- impulse
Obsolete spelling of be.
(obsolete) Past participle of be; been.
- An impulse to do something; a notion.
- An obsession.
- to be obsessed with one idea
- to be not quite sane
Other Word Forms of Bee
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Bee
- a bee in (one's) bonnet
- have a bee in one's bonnet
Origin of Bee
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Possibly from dialectal English bene, been, bean (“help given by neighbours”), from Middle English been, bene (“neighbourly help, prayer, petition, request, extra service given by a tenant to his lord”), from Old English bēn (“prayer, request, petition, favour, compulsory service”) from Proto-Germanic *bōniz (“prayer, request, supplication”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- (“to say, speak”). Cognate with Danish bøn (“prayer”), Dutch ban (“curse”), German Bann (“ban”). More at ban.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English bee, from Old English bēo, from Proto-Germanic *bijō (compare West Frisian and Dutch bij, Upper German Beie, Danish and Swedish bi), from Proto-Indo-European *bʱi- (compare Old Irish bech (“bee”), Welsh bydaf (“beehive”), Latin fūcus (“drone”), Latvian bite (“bee”), Russian пчела (pčelá, “bee”)).
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English bēo bhei- in Indo-European roots Sense 2, perhaps alteration of dialectal bean voluntary help given to a farmer by his neighbors from Middle English bene extra service by a tenant to his lord from Old English bēn prayer bhā-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English be a ring from Old English bēag bheug- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Variant spellings.
From Wiktionary
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