Beefy vs Beey - What's the difference?
beefy | beey |
Similar to, or tasting like beef.
Containing beef.
(informal) Strong or muscular.
(informal) Sturdy; robust.
(informal, rare) .
* 1871 , P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II,
* 1887 , Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love ,
* 1905 , The Bee-Keepers’ Review XVIII,
* 2008 , Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys ,
As adjectives the difference between beefy and beey
is that beefy is similar to, or tasting like beef while beey is {{l/en|reminiscent|Reminiscent}} of or {{l/en|contain|containing}} {{l/en|bee|bees}}.beefy
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Adjective
(er)- The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.
- The software slows down even a beefy computer.
beey
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Adjective
(en adjective)page 252
- 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.
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- Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey , bed.
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- [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey ” flavor that is simply delicious.
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- The buzzy, gnatty, beey', mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, ' beey , mosquitoey than it had before.