Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "bee-sting".
Emitting shrill, trumpeting cries, it began to rear and pitch like a bee-stung stallion.
Bellowing like a bee-stung bull, the lout charged the apparently unarmed man.
He seemed a companionable sort, and she was glad to have found passage with an able captain who could also fight like a bee-stung bear.
He was struggling in H'ani's hands, all wet and defiant, his face red with anger and his bee-stung eyes tight closed, but his toothless pink mouth wide as he howled his outrage.
In each the long pale face bore an expression of infuriating haughtiness, the short, bee-stung lips puckered in smiling contempt, the high-arched brows lightly pinching between them a queenly frown.
Her narrator presents her Japanese lover to us as a sex object, complete with bee-stung lips.