bishy barnabeen.

Brit.

/ˌbɪʃɪ ˈbɑːnəbi/, U.S.

/ˌbɪʃi ˈbɑrnəbi/

Forms:

α. 1700s bush a benny tree, 1800s Bishop Benetree.

β. 1800s beeshy barnabee, 1800s Bishop-barney, 1800s bish-a-barney bee, 1800s bishy barnaby, 1800s bushey barney bee, 1800s bushy barnaby, 1800s– Bishop Barnabee, 1800s– Bishop Barnaby, 1800s– bishee barnabee, 1900s bisky barnabee, 1900s– bishy barnabee, 1900s– bishy barney bee, 1900s– bishy barny bee, 1900s– bushy barnabee, 2000s– bishabarnabee, 2000s– bishie barnabee, 2000s– bushie barnabee, 2000s– bushy barney bee, 2000s– bushy barny bee.

γ. 1800s Bishop Benebee.

δ. 1800s beeshy burnaby, 1800s Bishop-burney, 1800s Bishop Burneybee, 1800s bishop's burnaby, 1800s bushy burneybee, 1800s busy burnybee, 1800s– Bishop Burnabee, 1900s– bishop-is-burning, 1900s– bishy burney bee.

ε. 1800s bushy bandy bee, 1900s bisky banderbee, 2000s– bushy bandy.

Also with reduplication of the first element.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably immediately after use in the nursery rhyme cited in quots. 1860 and 1865, according to which the insect is believed to fly off the hand to a person's true love. The word shows considerable variation and has been subject to widespread alteration as a result of folk etymology. It is difficult to establish the relative chronology of the forms or to ascertain which was the original form.With the first element bishop compare bishop n. 6a (although later apprehended as bishop n. 1). The forms bishy , bishie , etc. may reflect a shortening of this (compare -y suffix⁶); conversely, bishop may reflect a later rationalization. It has alternatively been suggested that this element may reflect a corruption of a verbal form in an earlier version of the nursery rhyme; possible candidates include busk ye (compare busk v.¹ 1c) and bless you (compare bless v.¹ and see especially quot. 1814 at burnie-bee n.). If so, burnie-bee n. would represent the original form rather than a later shortening of bishy barnabee n. Forms with reduplication of the first element (compare e.g. quots. 1900 and 2012) are probably after the use in the nursery rhyme. With forms of the second element in -burn- (see δ. forms and burnie-bee n.) compare burn v.¹ (the precise form probably reflecting a derivative; compare -y suffix¹, -ing suffix²), perhaps motivated by the flaming red colour of the insect. Compare burn-cow n. at burn- comb. form 2, denoting a different insect notable for brilliant colouring. The final element -bee probably shows bee n.¹ Occasional forms (e.g. Bishop-barney at β. forms, Bishop-burney at δ. forms, bushy bandy at ε. forms) show loss of the final element. Attempts to link the word with either a real-life Bishop Barnaby (no such historical figure is known) or with St Barnabas Day (11 June) may be dismissed as fanciful. A connection with Edmund Bonner (d. 1569), bishop of London, known as ‘Bloody Bonner’, a notorious persecutor of Protestant martyrs, has also been suggested (positing an original form *Bishop Bonner bee ). Many forms remain unexplained. Related word. Compare also English regional (East Anglian) bishy , in the same sense (20th cent.; shortened < bishy barnabee n.).

English regional (chiefly East Anglian).

A ladybird. Cf. burnie-bee n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Coccinellidae > member of (lady-bird)

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1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 128 Bush a benny tree, a Lady fly.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 33 Bishop-barney, the golden bug.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Bishop-Barnabee, the pretty insect more generally called the Lady-bird, or May-bug, Coccinella septem punctata... It is sometimes called Bishop Benebee, which may possibly have been intended to mean the blessed bee; sometimes Bishop Benetree, of which it seems not possible to make any thing.

1848 J. D. Hooker Let. 9 Aug. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) I. xiii. 248 There are lots of servants to go and come as I please to call or send, cats innumerable, and more ‘Bishop Barnabees’ than at Kew, and exactly like them.

1860 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1859 86 I have heard the children in Norfolk repeat a nursery rhyme addressed to this insect commencing with the line: ‘Bishy, Bishy, Barnie Bee’.

1865 F. Cowan Curious Facts Hist. Insects 19 In Norfolk..where this insect is called the Bishop Barnabee, the young girls have the following rhyme..: Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding be: If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away!

1880 Folk-lore Rec. 3 127 The local name [in East Suffolk] for the ladybird is ‘Bishy Barnaby’.

1900 Notes & Queries 29 Sept. 256/1 There is a bishy-bishy-barnabee.

1975 Guardian 28 May 10/2 My thoughts turned to some sound reasoning on this topic imparted to me by a farmer in a Brackland pub at this time last year, with reference to sugar-beet. ‘I walk down a row, and if I can find two or more bishy barny bees to the chain, I don't need to spray—and that save me sixty pounds the acre.’

1995 Independent (Nexis) 4 June 75 The insect is called by a number of pet names in different parts of the country: ladycow, cushcow lady and burnie-bee, or Bishop Barnabee.

2012 Ladybirds & Wortham Ling, Norfolk in nosher.net (O.E.D. Archive 2018) (caption) A pair of bright spotty 'Bishy Bishy Barnabees'.

2016 @fenken 28 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) A small fraction of the bishy barnabees on the car this afternoon #outbreak.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bishy barnabee
释义	bishy barnabeen. Brit. /ˌbɪʃɪ ˈbɑːnəbi/, U.S. /ˌbɪʃi ˈbɑrnəbi/ Forms: α. 1700s bush a benny tree, 1800s Bishop Benetree. β. 1800s beeshy barnabee, 1800s Bishop-barney, 1800s bish-a-barney bee, 1800s bishy barnaby, 1800s bushey barney bee, 1800s bushy barnaby, 1800s– Bishop Barnabee, 1800s– Bishop Barnaby, 1800s– bishee barnabee, 1900s bisky barnabee, 1900s– bishy barnabee, 1900s– bishy barney bee, 1900s– bishy barny bee, 1900s– bushy barnabee, 2000s– bishabarnabee, 2000s– bishie barnabee, 2000s– bushie barnabee, 2000s– bushy barney bee, 2000s– bushy barny bee. γ. 1800s Bishop Benebee. δ. 1800s beeshy burnaby, 1800s Bishop-burney, 1800s Bishop Burneybee, 1800s bishop's burnaby, 1800s bushy burneybee, 1800s busy burnybee, 1800s– Bishop Burnabee, 1900s– bishop-is-burning, 1900s– bishy burney bee. ε. 1800s bushy bandy bee, 1900s bisky banderbee, 2000s– bushy bandy. Also with reduplication of the first element. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Probably immediately after use in the nursery rhyme cited in quots. 1860 and 1865, according to which the insect is believed to fly off the hand to a person's true love. The word shows considerable variation and has been subject to widespread alteration as a result of folk etymology. It is difficult to establish the relative chronology of the forms or to ascertain which was the original form.With the first element bishop compare bishop n. 6a (although later apprehended as bishop n. 1). The forms bishy , bishie , etc. may reflect a shortening of this (compare -y suffix⁶); conversely, bishop may reflect a later rationalization. It has alternatively been suggested that this element may reflect a corruption of a verbal form in an earlier version of the nursery rhyme; possible candidates include busk ye (compare busk v.¹ 1c) and bless you (compare bless v.¹ and see especially quot. 1814 at burnie-bee n.). If so, burnie-bee n. would represent the original form rather than a later shortening of bishy barnabee n. Forms with reduplication of the first element (compare e.g. quots. 1900 and 2012) are probably after the use in the nursery rhyme. With forms of the second element in -burn- (see δ. forms and burnie-bee n.) compare burn v.¹ (the precise form probably reflecting a derivative; compare -y suffix¹, -ing suffix²), perhaps motivated by the flaming red colour of the insect. Compare burn-cow n. at burn- comb. form 2, denoting a different insect notable for brilliant colouring. The final element -bee probably shows bee n.¹ Occasional forms (e.g. Bishop-barney at β. forms, Bishop-burney at δ. forms, bushy bandy at ε. forms) show loss of the final element. Attempts to link the word with either a real-life Bishop Barnaby (no such historical figure is known) or with St Barnabas Day (11 June) may be dismissed as fanciful. A connection with Edmund Bonner (d. 1569), bishop of London, known as ‘Bloody Bonner’, a notorious persecutor of Protestant martyrs, has also been suggested (positing an original form Bishop Bonner bee ). Many forms remain unexplained. Related word.* Compare also English regional (East Anglian) bishy , in the same sense (20th cent.; shortened < bishy barnabee n.). English regional (chiefly East Anglian). A ladybird. Cf. burnie-bee n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Coccinellidae > member of (lady-bird) ladycow1583 golden knop1592 cow-lady1656 ladybird1673 lady-clock1682 lady fly1714 ladybeetle1766 ladybug1787 bishy barnabee1789 coccinella1815 soldier1848 Judycow1855 bishop1875 coccinellid1887 1789 'Norfolk Lady' MS Coll. Norfolk Words in Dictionaries (2016) 37 128 Bush a benny tree, a Lady fly. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 33 Bishop-barney, the golden bug. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Bishop-Barnabee, the pretty insect more generally called the Lady-bird, or May-bug, Coccinella septem punctata... It is sometimes called Bishop Benebee, which may possibly have been intended to mean the blessed bee; sometimes Bishop Benetree, of which it seems not possible to make any thing. 1848 J. D. Hooker Let. 9 Aug. in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) I. xiii. 248 There are lots of servants to go and come as I please to call or send, cats innumerable, and more ‘Bishop Barnabees’ than at Kew, and exactly like them. 1860 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1859 86 I have heard the children in Norfolk repeat a nursery rhyme addressed to this insect commencing with the line: ‘Bishy, Bishy, Barnie Bee’. 1865 F. Cowan Curious Facts Hist. Insects 19 In Norfolk..where this insect is called the Bishop Barnabee, the young girls have the following rhyme..: Bishop, Bishop Barnabee, Tell me when my wedding be: If it be to-morrow day, Take your wings and fly away! 1880 Folk-lore Rec. 3 127 The local name [in East Suffolk] for the ladybird is ‘Bishy Barnaby’. 1900 Notes & Queries 29 Sept. 256/1 There is a bishy-bishy-barnabee. 1975 Guardian 28 May 10/2 My thoughts turned to some sound reasoning on this topic imparted to me by a farmer in a Brackland pub at this time last year, with reference to sugar-beet. ‘I walk down a row, and if I can find two or more bishy barny bees to the chain, I don't need to spray—and that save me sixty pounds the acre.’ 1995 Independent (Nexis) 4 June 75 The insect is called by a number of pet names in different parts of the country: ladycow, cushcow lady and burnie-bee, or Bishop Barnabee. 2012 Ladybirds & Wortham Ling, Norfolk in nosher.net (O.E.D. Archive 2018) (caption) A pair of bright spotty 'Bishy Bishy Barnabees'. 2016 @fenken 28 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) A small fraction of the bishy barnabees on the car this afternoon #outbreak. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1789
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