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BUSY BEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does busy bee mean?
• BUSY BEE (noun)
The noun BUSY BEE has 1 sense:
1. an alert and energetic person
Familiarity information: BUSY BEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An alert and energetic person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
busy bee; eager beaver; live wire; sharpie; sharpy
Hypernyms ("busy bee" is a kind of...):
actor; doer; worker (a person who acts and gets things done)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "busy bee"):
goffer; gopher (a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman))
Context examples
Long, quiet days she spent, not lonely nor idle, for her little world was peopled with imaginary friends, and she was by nature a busy bee.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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