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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 personplay

  Familiarity information: BUSY BEE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUSY BEE (noun)


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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