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beep | beey |

As a noun beep

is the sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

As a verb beep

is to sound (something that makes a beep).

As an adjective beey is

{{l/en|reminiscent|Reminiscent}} of or {{l/en|contain|containing}} {{l/en|bee|bees}}.

beep

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.
  • A short, electronically produced tone.

    • Synonyms

    * (electronically produced ): bleep

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sound (something that makes a beep).
    • The motorists in the traffic jam were getting more and more frustrated and started beeping their horns.
  • To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts
    • ''Jason beeped Sharlene after they had drunk a few beers.
  • To produce a beep.
  • Telephoning a person, but only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
    • ''Susan beeped Jessica, and then Jessica called her back, because Susan didn't have enough credit on her phone to make the call.

    Synonyms

    * (sound (a car horn) ): honk, hoot, sound, toot * to have intercourse with, have sex with, fuck * (telephoning ): flash

    See also

    * pip English onomatopoeias

    beey

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal, rare) .
  • * 1871 , P.J. Malone, “Goethe and Frederica” in The Rural Carolinian II, 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.
  • * 1887 , Ptolemy Houghton, Hatred Is Akin to Love , page 35
    • Fell backwards into a soft, though rather waspy and beey , bed.
  • * 1905 , The Bee-Keepers’ Review XVIII, page 58
    • [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey ” flavor that is simply delicious.
  • * 2008 , Muncy Christian, The Very Bloody Marys , page 190
    • The buzzy, gnatty, beey', mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, ' beey , mosquitoey than it had before.