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bee-stung

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adjective
  1. having a red and swollen appearance: 1920s flappers with bee-stung lips.
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Origin of bee-stung

First recorded in 1930–35
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Examples from the Web for bee-stung

Historical Examples

  • She comes out of it with a violent start, as though she had just been bee-stung.

    Cobb's Bill-of-Fare

    Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

  • As though she had been bee-stung, Mittie May flung up her head.

    Sundry Accounts

    Irvin S. Cobb

  • As though he had been bee-stung the little man pivoted on his heels.

    Local Color

    Irvin S. Cobb

  • He was mollified and won by the big, gentle eyes and that bee-stung upper lip.

British Dictionary definitions for bee-stung

bee-stung

adjective
  1. (of the lips) pouting and sensuous
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