Beeg vs Beey - What's the difference?
beeg | beey |
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Booth Tarkington, title=His Own People, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He is beeg' like his ' beeg country. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Wells Hastings, title=The Best American Humorous Short Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Because," said Gideon, smiling down at her, "I ain' got no beeg club like she has." }}
* {{quote-news, year=1998, date=August 28, author=Dan Savage, title=Savage Love, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=More recently, former MTV VJ Simon Rex was discovered to have made a handful of pornos prior to becoming a beeg music television star. }} (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 beeg and beey
is that beeg is eye dialect of lang=en while beey is {{l/en|reminiscent|Reminiscent}} of or {{l/en|contain|containing}} {{l/en|bee|bees}}.beeg
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(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.
