Definitions

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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present subjunctive of be.

Etymologies

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From Old English (hē) biþ. See also be and -eth.

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Examples

  • One tooth, two teeth; so why not one booth, two "beeth"?

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

  • If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

    November 2003 2003

  • "Nay, your Majesty -- in sooth, no -- my hand beeth all right!"

    The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897

  • If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?

    English News 2009

  • And then if you win, you will cry out in victory and scream as such at your TV cursing that son of beeth that invaded yoru game.

    Joystiq [PlayStation] 2009

  • Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?

    PCLinuxOS-Forums 2009

  • 1. There beeth a woman, Annie, in the land of Georgia whose dedication to keeping the sabbath holy is above all others.

    Archive 2009-02-22 2009

  • Higden, [553] writing soon after the opening of the fourteenth century, speaks of the French influence at that time and for some generations preceding: [554] "For two hundred years children in scole, agenst the usage and manir of all other nations beeth compelled for to leave hire own language, and for to construe hir lessons and hire thynges in Frensche ....

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • "Open you eyesth; Somethimes you canth beeth everywhereths to prothect usth tho would thould we do unthil you tho up?

    unknown title 2009

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