swarmy

English

Etymology

swarm +‎ -y

Adjective

swarmy (comparative swarmier, superlative swarmiest)

1. Of bees: inclined to swarm.
   • 2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6:

     There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.

2. Swarming with people or activity; teeming.
   • 1871, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian note-books:

     This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.