bestie

From best +‎ -ie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛsti/
• Rhymes: -ɛsti

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bestie (plural besties) (informal, chiefly women's speech)

1. A best friend.
   • 2007, Brigid Lowry, Things You Either Hate Or Love:

     You're supposed to be my bestie, Mel. We used to tell each other everything. So what's this Toby secret you can't tell me?

   • 2008, Julie Kraut, Shallon Lester, Hot Mess: Summer in the City:

     Even back then, a party just wasn't a party without my bestie, and I was miserable for the last eight frames.

   • 2009, Keleigh Crigler Hadley, Preacher:

     On the way home, I got a joke text from my bestie.

   • 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎^[1], Hachette, →ISBN:

     Gave me a cryptic, mostly frustrated-seeming look. Went upstairs with her bestie. To re-up, probably.

   • 2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     After an oddly-placed sponsored All State commercial starring the Please Don’t Destroy boys, a group of gal pals surprise their pregnant bestie Kelsie (Chloe Fineman) and her long-suffering husband Matt (Andrew Dismukes) at their baby shower […]

2. A term of address for someone, usually used to instruct, to make a statement, or to draw attention.
3. A friend (any in general).

• → Polish: bestie
• → Portuguese: bestie
• → Tagalog: beshie

• beties, bitees, bêtise

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛstɪjɛ]
• Hyphenation: bes‧ti‧e

bestie f

1. (informal) beast, monster
2. (offensive) beast (objectionable person)

• zrůda
• stvůra
• nestvůra
• příšera
• monstrum
• mrcha
• potvora
• svině

• “bestie”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bestie”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From German Bestie, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).

bestie n (singular definite bestiet, plural indefinite bestier)

1. beast (a cruel and violent being or creature)

• udyr
• uhyre

bestie f

1. plural of bestia

Unadapted borrowing from English bestie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.sti/
• Rhymes: -ɛsti
• Syllabification: bes‧tie

bestie f (indeclinable)

1. (informal, chiefly women's speech) bestie, best friend

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛs.tjɛ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstjɛ
• Syllabification: bes‧tie

bestie

1. nominative plural of bestia
2. accusative plural of bestia
3. vocative plural of bestia

• bestie at Obserwatorium Języka i Kultury Młodzieży
• bestie at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Unadapted borrowing from English bestie

• Rhymes: -ɛsti
• Hyphenation: bes‧tie

bestie m or f by sense (plural besties)

1. (Brazil, informal) bestie (best friend)

   Synonyms: best, BFF

   Fui pessear com a minha bestie.

   I went walking with my bestie.

Borrowed from Italian bestia, Latin bēstia (19th century).

bestie f (plural bestii)

1. beast, wild animal

   Synonym: fiară

• bestial

• animal
• vietate

bestie

1. plural of bestia