Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Smiling, as with happiness or optimism.
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- adjective Radiantly beaming;
happy ;cheerful .
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- adjective smiling with happiness or optimism
Etymologies
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Examples
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But just as she whirled past, Mary saw them, and leaned back to wave her hand and smile her "beamish" smile at the unwitting discoverers of her secret.
Betty Wales Senior Margaret Warde
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To defend against the higher standard implied by the first … and while from an American neocon, this would be to defend the IDF from being judged by the same standard, but in other circles around the world it might be to defend Hamas from being held to the same standard demanded of the IDF … jump up and down and pretend that it should be understood as saying the second. beamish Says:
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This is why unlimited leverage is so important. beamish says:
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John Skookum says: beamish: Normally, we use ‘lately’ for that sensenow.
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine 2010
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Thanks, beamish, for both understanding and answering my question.
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine 2010
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So that is also pretty good evidence that the financial system is no longer the constraint. beamish says:
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Herb Spencer says: beamish: Originally ‘late’ meant ‘slow’, from which it came to mean ‘after the appropriate time’ (which it mostly means now, of course).
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine 2010
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Directed by Bob Clark (this is great enough to forgive him for Porky's), and written and wonderfully narrated by humorist Jean Shepherd, the film tracks the misadventures of Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley), a beamish lad in the 1940s who wants nothing else for Christmas but a Red Ryder BB gun. — Dean Maurer
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Thanks, beamish, for both understanding and answering my question.
The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine 2010
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If the secret life of litter proves as beamish as that of the mail, we may never use the word “garbage” again.
Alice in Mail Art Land/Traveling Light with a Pinhole Camera 2009
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June 6, 2015