Bessie
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth, also used as a formal female given name.
"Bessie - I beg your pardon, but I do so like the name 'Bessie'; and the best is, that you always say these pretty things as if you meant them."
- 2 A lake monster supposed to exist in Lake Erie in the United States.
- 3 A town in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States.
Example
More examples"Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers."
Etymology
From Bess + -ie.
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