# honeypot
## English
### Alternative forms

* honey pot

### Etymology

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey +‎ pot.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* enPR: hŭn'ē-pŏt

### Noun

honeypot (plural honeypots)
* A pot of honey.
* (figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:
** (US slang, dated) A romantic pet name; "honey".
** (slang) A vulva or vagina.
*** 2011, Mechele Armstrong, Code Monkey, →ISBN:"[S]he had the boss eating from her honeypot." Baxter rolled his eyes at the crude term for pussy, but Rodney did have a point.
** (espionage) A spy (typically attractive and female) who uses sex to trap and blackmail a target.
*** 1989, The Washingtonian, volume 24, page 25:And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.
*** 1996, John H. Waller, The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War, Random House, →ISBN, page 226:Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.
*** 2004, Richard C.S. Trahair, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 353:The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.
** A woman who attracts sexual attention from men.
*** 1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 90:Wherever the biggest bunch of men were in the room, you could bet Lisa'd be in the middle of them. What a honeypot.
*** 2012, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing The Lines, →ISBN:'You're turning into a honeypot,' he would say to her: it was a criticism of sins uncommitted, it was jeering as if she were getting above herself, it was a warning, no doubt of that, and there was something else which she could barely fathom, it was hurt at the approaching betrayal, a staving off of loss.
** (computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
*** 2007 October 12, “Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers”, in The Economic Times, retrieved 29 June 2008:Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.
** (chiefly British) A draw: a place which attracts visitors.
*** 2004 March 13, Bernice Davidson, “England 2004: Bright lights on the water”, in Telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 28 June 2008:Superb Roman remains, Georgian architecture and countless museums justify Bath's position as a tourist honeypot.
*** 2023 December 13, Ben Jones, “Night train dreams struggle to overcome railway realities”, in RAIL, number 998, page 24:ES's original intention was to run beyond Berlin to the tourist honeypots of Dresden and Prague, but a lack of suitable train paths means that won't be possible until March 2024.
* (obsolete, euphemistic) A chamberpot.
* (obsolete, euphemistic) A slop bucket.

#### Synonyms

* (vagina): See Thesaurus:vagina
* (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
* (honey pit): See Thesaurus:outhouse

#### Derived terms

* honeypot ant

#### Related terms

* honeynet
* honeytoken
* honeytrap

#### Translations
## Portuguese
### Noun

honeypot m (plural honeypots)
* (computer security) honeypot (a trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorised use of information systems)
    Synonym: pote de mel