Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beehived

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bee-hived
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having, or arranged in, a beehive hairdo.

verb

simple past and past participle of beehive

Example Sentences

"[…] Flo came in with a jingle of keys, swathed in a perfumed mist of hair spray and fresh nail lacquer — every Thursday morning Flo left for the "post office" at eleven A.M. and came back freshly painted and beehived."
"He's so bored these days he'd go ten miles to see a dead mule & his new wife, the spun-gold beehived eighty-year-old hussy, speaks in opaque allegories I can never understand […]"

Etymology

From beehive + -ed.

Questions

What does beehived mean?: Having, or arranged in, a beehive hairdo.
Where does beehived come from?: From beehive + -ed.

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