beastie

[bee-stee]

noun

1. Chiefly Literary.,  a small animal, especially one toward which affection is felt.

2. Facetious.,  an insect; bug.

3. Canadian Slang (chiefly Alberta).,  construction worker.

beastie

/ ˈbiːstɪ /

noun

1. a small animal

2. informal,  an insect

Word History and Origins

Origin of beastie¹

First recorded in 1775–85; beast + -ie

Example Sentences

In Mr. Burns’s case, inspiration struck the poet soon after his plow struck the nest of a “wee beastie,” which is to say, a small field mouse, and tore it all to pieces.

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They subjected their victims to what police called "unimaginable abuse" in a Glasgow drug den dubbed "the beastie house".

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The child added: "That is why it is called the beastie house."

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She described the flat as the "dark and scary beastie house" because she had been locked in a cupboard with a box that was full of spiders.

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In 1998, she found it did, in fact, slow, by about one-hundredth of 1 second—proof that Duncan and Thompson’s theoretical beastie existed in the wild.

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