Beey vs Bevy - What's the difference?
beey | bevy |
(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 ,
A group of animals, in particular quail.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A large group or collection.
A group of female humans. Used chiefly of schoolgirls.
As an adjective beey
is {{l/en|reminiscent|Reminiscent}} of or {{l/en|contain|containing}} {{l/en|bee|bees}}.As a noun bevy is
a group of animals, in particular quail.beey
English
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.
page 58
- [Sugar honey] has a peculiarly sweet, spicy, “beey ” flavor that is simply delicious.
page 190
- The buzzy, gnatty, beey', mosquitoey sound was back. In fact, it sounded even more buzzy, gnatty, ' beey , mosquitoey than it had before.
bevy
English
Noun
(bevies)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
