Definitions
Etymologies
- beam + -ish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But just as she whirled past, Mary saw them, and leaned back to wave her hand and smile her "beamish" smile at the unwitting discoverers of her secret.”
“To defend against the higher standard implied by the first … and while from an American neocon, this would be to defend the IDF from being judged by the same standard, but in other circles around the world it might be to defend Hamas from being held to the same standard demanded of the IDF … jump up and down and pretend that it should be understood as saying the second. beamish Says:”
“So that is also pretty good evidence that the financial system is no longer the constraint. beamish says:”
“This is why unlimited leverage is so important. beamish says:”
“John Skookum says: beamish: Normally, we use ‘lately’ for that sensenow.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
“Herb Spencer says: beamish: Originally ‘late’ meant ‘slow’, from which it came to mean ‘after the appropriate time’ (which it mostly means now, of course).”
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
“Directed by Bob Clark (this is great enough to forgive him for Porky's), and written and wonderfully narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd, the film tracks the misadventures of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a beamish lad in the 1940s who wants nothing else for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. — Dean Maurer”
“Thanks, beamish, for both understanding and answering my question.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
“If the secret life of litter proves as beamish as that of the mail, we may never use the word “garbage” again.”
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera
“Posted April 4, 2009 1:52 AM beamish writes: 1. They do submit, except for the ones who don't.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beamish’.
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Mikey's favorite words
Here they are. Enjoy.
unconscionable, egregious, thunderfuzzled, magnanimous, stumblepony, somnambulant, torpor, nefarious, beamish, recalcitrant, recidivist, hogshead and 1 more...
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dann's words
just some nice words that i like.
beamish, snark, sundry, contrariwise, salsify, cephalopod, omphaloskepsis, grok, resistentialism, peristerophobia, aglet, ferrule and 125 more...
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Prometheus
Words only for him.
όμο�?φος, concentric, kissable, ensorceler, beamish, pulchritudinous, inspiration, compulsion, flirt, sexpert, ambrosial, grapholagnia and 10 more...
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Poetrie: Jabberwocky
Thanks to uselessness for the idea of Poetrie.
Be sure to see also the word page Jabberwocky, which contains a spell-checked version of this poem, thanks to His Excellency oroboros. Ri...chortled, callay, callooh, frabjous, beamish, slain, thou, hast, galumphing, snicker-snack, burbled, tulgey and 20 more...
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Jabberwordies
jabberwocky, brillig, slithy, toves, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogoves, mome raths, outgrabe, jabberwock and 17 more...
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Asativum's Words
tatterdemalion, truthiness, eldritch, gemütlich, aa, pahoehoe, uffish, beamish, but, zymurgy, tarnation, malapropism and 59 more...
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Edlin's Words
hakubutsukan, sisyphean, quixotic, defenestrate, onomatopoeia, brouhaha, piloerection, nictitating, cruciverbalist, akimbo, parallelogram, feckless and 25 more...
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Jabberwocky
slithy, tove, brillig, gyre, grimble, mimsy, mome, outgrabe, borogoves, jabberwock, raths, jubjub and 16 more...
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'Twas brillig and the slithey toves
Made-up words and otehr such nonsense, most notably from the works of Lewis Carrol, Edward Lear, Roald Dahl, and Dr. Seuss, and their adaptations.
brillig, slithy, tove, gyre, gimble, wabe, mimsy, borogrove, outgrabe, jabberwocky, jubjub, frumious and 38 more...
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