Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bebusy

/bɪˈbɪzi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-busy
IPA: /bɪˈbɪzi/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make or be busy; occupy.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"The whole composition or text is manly, they are not bebusied about Rhetorike flowers."
"There is no time in this month to be spent in idleness. Prudent husbandmen will bebusy and suffer none of their domestics to lounge away their hours as though time was made for sluggards only."
"To continue: the unrated, as distinguished from the unruly, bebusied themselves with furbishing the barren abodes of Durfee, Farnam and Lawrance."

Etymology

From be- + busy.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: be

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

bebusies (present, singular) bebusying (participle, present) bebusied (participle, past) bebusied (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce bebusy?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɪˈbɪzi/.
What does bebusy mean?: To make or be busy; occupy.
Where does bebusy come from?: From be- + busy.

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