beamish
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of beamish
First recorded in 1520–30; beam (in the sense “ray of light”) + -ish 1
Example Sentences
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That’s not the fault of the beamish, resourceful Ross, who, as a recent Evan Hansen, has experience portraying liars.
From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024
At least the songs are sung well: Jones is as beamish as his music sounds; you can see and hear how his Ivan might be the star the show says he is.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
Tommy Steele is an infectiously beamish entertainer, Onna White's dances burst forth like spring blossoms, and their style is to woo rather than wow.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cold fact is that Britain, since the legendary days of beamish King Arthur and His Tabb Round, has never had a sovereign so uniformly and usefully beloved as King George.
From Time Magazine Archive
How gallantly the "beamish boy" must have dealt the death-stroke to the queer brute as the orchestra sounded the Siegfried and the Dragon motives, and the air all the while redolent with heliotrope.
From Unicorns by Huneker, James
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