beeishness

English

Etymology

From beeish +‎ -ness.

Noun

beeishness (uncountable)

1. The quality or characteristic of being beeish.
   • 1907, British Bee Journal, volume 35, page 29:

     Why should this accusation carry so much more sting with it than "beeishness"?

   • 2004, Ian Buchanan, Marcel Swiboda, Deleuze and Music, page 11:

     […] you can create a costume that is a facsimile of a bee, or you can attach a couple of yellow and black ribbons to your skirt and perhaps put some antennae-like things in your hair and thereby call to mind a certain beeishness.

   • 2015, John Dougherty, Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity, page 41:

     My bees are the most properly beeish and bee-like bees in all of beeishness!