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bee-stung
adjective
- having a red and swollen appearance:
1920s flappers with bee-stung lips.
bee-stung
adjective
- (of the lips) pouting and sensuous
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Word History and Origins
Origin of bee-stung1
First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences
“There was criticism like, ‘Hilary’s terribly bee stung lips got in the way of me seeing the character,” she says.
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One day a boy was chasing a butterfly, cap in hand, and just as he had caught it, a bee stung him.
From Project Gutenberg
As though he had been bee-stung the little man pivoted on his heels.
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One day in biting into a peach a bee stung me on the tongue, and I had to suffer fiendish pains.
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But another bee stung him in the neck, and he lost the thread of his discourse and stopped short in the midst of it.
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He was mollified and won by the big, gentle eyes and that bee-stung upper lip.
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