Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An animal, especially one regarded with jocular affection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
bheesty . - noun A little animal.
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- noun informal
beast ,animal .
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Examples
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The intentional incompetence of the cameraman keeps a clear view of the beastie from the audience for quite some time, offering only disturbing hints of what has truly descended upon the city.
My “Cloverfield” Review (sans spoilers) « Skulls in the Stars 2008
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So, drumroll, please – the number that my random-number generating beastie is showing is:
Tigers & Strawberries » Wrapping up the Chupacabra Chili 2005
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Outside of that it's limited mostly to beastie boys (in the rap field ... if you could call beastie boys rap ...) sometimes, because it's not stuff meant for the mainstay of a musical collection.
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He's also got a common "beastie" theme running through his works, and references to drugs and Pink Floyd...
Archive 2008-07-01 tenshi_a 2008
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He's also got a common "beastie" theme running through his works, and references to drugs and Pink Floyd...
Space Giraffe tenshi_a 2008
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When it was safely dead, he began to search through his encyclopedia to see what kind of a "beastie" he had caught.
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If Mr. Stewart had children he would as soon think of leaving them unnamed as to let a "beastie" go without a name.
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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If Mr. Stewart had children he would as soon think of leaving them unnamed as to let a "beastie" go without a name.
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If it were a monster, it'd be an amazingly rare kind of beastie that hides in the darkest, dankest spots of Bodmin Moor.
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It sits right on the Necanicum Estuary, which in itself yields some amazing nature moments, when one kind of beastie or another wanders by.
Oregon Coast Travel, Tourism, Science, Entertainment News - Breaking News from the Oregon Coast 2009
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