sweetest human bean
- noun
- Informal
:
persona más dulce
- Everyone loves Maria—she's truly the sweetest human bean you could ever hope to meet.
Examples
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You brought cookies for everyone? You are the sweetest human bean!
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My grandmother is the sweetest human bean ever.
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After helping me with my project, my friend called me the sweetest human bean.
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You are the sweetest human bean I know!
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Everyone loves Maria—she's truly the sweetest human bean you could ever hope to meet.
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You brought cookies for everyone? You are the sweetest human bean!
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After helping me with my project, my friend called me the sweetest human bean.
Synonyms
8
3.0
A loving name adults use for a child or pet
A loving name for someone you care about
Antonyms
How Kind
- Informal
304
1.0
- Informal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core meaning 'very kind person' can be derived from combining 'sweet' and 'human', but the use of 'bean' is a playful phonetic substitution for 'being' (or a colloquial/childlike form) rather than a literal reference to the legume. Understanding the affectionate, humorous intent therefore requires pragmatic or cultural knowledge of this wordplay, so the phrase is only partially predictable from its parts.
Etymology
The phrase sweetest human bean is a playful twist on the old saying 'sweetest human being', where bean, meaning a small sweet candy, replaces being and paints a cute picture of a tiny, sweet person. People say it to show affection, so it means 'very kind'.