beebee /bi/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1
a black and yellow flying insect with a round body that makes honey and can sting you: a swarm of bees → see also bumblebee, honeybee2have a bee in your bonnet (about something) informal to think something is so important, so necessary, etc. that you keep mentioning it or thinking about it, in a way that starts to annoy other people: Dad has a bee in his bonnet about saving electricity.3a sewing/quilting etc. bee an occasion when people, usually women, meet in order to do a particular type of work4be the bee’s knees old-fashioned informal to be very good [Origin: Old English beo] → see also the birds and the bees at bird (3), as busy as a bee at busy1 (1), spelling bee
a black and yellow flying insect with a round body that makes honey and can sting you: a swarm of bees → see also bumblebee, honeybee2have a bee in your bonnet (about something) informal to think something is so important, so necessary, etc. that you keep mentioning it or thinking about it, in a way that starts to annoy other people: Dad has a bee in his bonnet about saving electricity.3a sewing/quilting etc. bee an occasion when people, usually women, meet in order to do a particular type of work4be the bee’s knees old-fashioned informal to be very good [Origin: Old English beo] → see also the birds and the bees at bird (3), as busy as a bee at busy1 (1), spelling bee