"busy bee" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: busy bees [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} busy bee (plural busy bees)
  1. (colloquial) A hardworking person. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: busy beaver Translations (hardworking person): bezige bij [feminine] (Dutch), pracuś [masculine] (Polish), mrówa [feminine] (Polish), arbetsmyra [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-busy_bee-en-noun-G7c4CbFL Disambiguation of 'hardworking person': 100 0
  2. Synonym of working bee. Synonyms: working bee [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: busy as a bee
    Sense id: en-busy_bee-en-noun-3vxOuRTZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, People Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 3 97 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 2 98 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 5 95 Disambiguation of People: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Personality Disambiguation of Personality: 0 0

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