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6-letter words (1 found)

BEETLE,

5-letter words (2 found)

BELEE,BETEL,

4-letter words (8 found)

BEET,BELT,BETE,BLEE,BLET,LEET,TEEL,TELE,

3-letter words (9 found)

BEE,BEL,BET,EEL,ELT,LEE,LET,TEE,TEL,

2-letter words (5 found)

BE,EE,EL,ET,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 26 words from beetle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of beetle

beetle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiːtəl/
    • (General American) IPA(key): [ˈbiɾəɫ]
  • Rhymes: -iːtəl
  • Homophone: Beatle

Etymology 1

From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite +‎ -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).

Alternative forms

  • bittle, betel, bittil (all obsolete)

Noun

beetle (plural beetles)

  1. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
  2. (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
  3. Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”)
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:beetle.
Synonyms
  • (insect): bug (U.S. colloquial)
Derived terms
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Verb

beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)

  1. To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
    • 1982, A Woman of No Importance (TV programme)
      I beetled across to our table, but no Pauline, no Mr Cresswell, no Mr Rudyard.

See also

  • bug
  • chafer
  • firefly
  • ladybird
  • scarab

Etymology 2

From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.

Adjective

beetle (comparative more beetle, superlative most beetle)

  1. Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
    beetle brows

Verb

beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)

  1. To loom over; to extend or jut.
    The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.

Etymology 3

From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat +‎ -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).

Noun

beetle (plural beetles)

  1. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
  2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
Translations

Verb

beetle (third-person singular simple present beetles, present participle beetling, simple past and past participle beetled)

  1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
    to beetle cotton goods

References


Source: wiktionary.org