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Beey vs Bely - What's the difference?

beey | bely |

As an adjective beey

is (informal|rare).

As a verb bely is

.

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.

    bely

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1811, author=Jane Austen, title=Sense and Sensibility, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This woman of whom he writes--whoever she be--or any one, in short, but your own dear self, mama, and Edward, may have been so barbarous to bely me. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1871, author=Catullus, title=The Poems and Fragments of Catullus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=So he'll quickly devour the way, if only He's no booby; for all a snowy maiden Chide imperious, and her hands around him Both in jealousy clasp'd, refuse departure. 10 She, if only report the truth bely not, Doats, as hardly within her own possession. 3. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=J. Arthur Gibbs, title=A Cotswold Village, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And here it may be said that Tom Peregrine's name did not bely him. }}
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