Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A diminutive of Elizabeth, also used as a formal female given name.
  • proper noun Bessie, a lake monster supposed to exist in Lake Erie in the United States.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Bessie.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • The name of the cow in the work of fiction Bridge to Terabithia.

    February 17, 2011

  • Oh, that's a bit iroquoisy--I had just added The Dun Cow from The Book of the Dun Cow, which also has a flood in it. I note this only because I had a dream about large waves in frazil-ice floodwaters last night.

    Edit: Iroquoisy also because my landlords have a rooster in my backyard right now, which is what I was thinking about when yarb and hernesheir were talking about phelloid this morning.

    February 17, 2011

  • Ruzuzu, you have the most interesting iroquoisy events ever.

    February 18, 2011

  • Ah--you caught me. Over on conference breakfast I mentioned I was trying to reserve that word for times when things are double-iroquoisy or lead back to Kateri Tekakwitha.

    February 18, 2011

  • Well, you did say "a bit."

    February 18, 2011

  • Thank you for noticing that--I was actually trying to make a chart to see whether there was some way to connect the rooster in The Book of the Dun Cow to Kateri Tekakwitha, but it just came out looking something like this:

    Phase 1: Rooster

    Phase 2: ?

    Phase 3: Prophet.

    February 18, 2011

  • It's a start....

    February 18, 2011