The Only Use of
teem
in
Brave New World
- Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages.†
p. 37.2teeming = filled (has many)
Definitions:
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(1)
(teem) have a large number of things -- especially things that are moving
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
to pour out, In archaic literature, teem can mean to give birth to.