honey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌni/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: honeys
form: honies
form: hony
form: hunney
form: hunny
Etymology: From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
Senses: examples: text: The honey in the pot should last for years.
glosses: A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
examples: text: The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
ref: 1908, United States. Bureau of Chemistry, Bulletin, numbers 110-114:
text: If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining...
ref: 1949, Roy A. Grout, editor, The Hive and the Honey Bee:
text: Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five...
ref: 2011, Stephen Taylor, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, volume 62:
glosses: A variety of this substance.
glosses: Nectar.
examples: text: O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], lines 91–93:
text: the honey of his language
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Something sweet or desirable.
examples: text: Honey, would you take out the trash?
text: Honey, I'm home.
text: "So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey."
ref: 2013 July 30, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013:
glosses: A term of affection.
examples: text: Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
text: It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around
If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money
I'm gonna have to blow this town.
ref: 1963, Sam Cooke, “Another Saturday Night”, in Ain't That Good News:
text: College was wild. I was like a happy little white kid playing in a sandbox full of toys. Honeys, basketball, music, I indulged in all of that shit to the max. And oh yeah. I went to a couple of classes too. I wasn't totally ass-out stupid.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: A woman, especially an attractive one.
glosses: A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Precum; pre-ejaculate.
Synonyms: sense: sweet fluid from bees
word: mel
sense: term of affection
word: darling
word: sweetie
word: sweetheart
Hypernyms: food
liquid
Hyponyms: blended honey
comb honey
creamed honey
crystallised
crystallized honey
dried honey
filtered honey
honeycomb
honeydew
honeydew honey
honey extractor
monofloral honey
pasteurised honey
pine honey
polyfloral honey
raw honey
strained honey
ultrasonicated honey
Derived terms: Africanized honey bee
apple honey
bees and honey
behoney
bread and honey
comb-honey
crested honey buzzard
dip me in honey and throw me to the lesbians
don't get your honey where you make your money
enhoney
European honey buzzard
hip-hop honey
hon
honey ant
honey badger
honeybag
honey barge
honey bear
honey bee
honeybee
honeyberry
honeybird
honey blond
Honeyboy
honey bucket
honeybug
honeybunch
honey bunch
honey bun
honeybun
honeybunny
honey bunny
honeybush
honey butter
honey-buzzard
honey buzzard
honeycake
honey cart
honey catches more flies than vinegar
honey child
honey chile
honey-colored
honeycomb
honeycombed
honeycomb moth
Honey Creek
honeycreeper
Honeycrisp
honey decoction
honeydew
honeydew melon
honey dill sauce
honey dip
honey dipper
honey-dipper
honey do list
honey-do list
honeydoll
honey drizzler
honeyeater
honeyed
honey flower
honeyful
honey fund
honey fungus
honeygar
Honeygirl
honeygirl
honey grass
honeyguide
honey guide
honey hole
honey house
honeyish
honey joys
honey kite
honeyless
honeylike
honey locust
honey lotus
honey-lotus
honeymaking
honey mark
honey mesquite
honey-month
honeymoon
honey moon
honey mouse
honey-mouthed
honey mushroom
honey mustard
honey myrtle
honeynet
honey oil
honey parrot
honeypie
honey plant
honey-plant
honey possum
honey pot
honeypot
honey pot ant
honey-pot ant
honey process
honey sac
honey sack
honey shot
honeysome
honey spot
honey stick
honey stomach
honeystone
honeysuck
honeysucker
honeysuckle
honey-sweet
honey tangerine
honey toast
honeytoken
honey-tongued
honey trap
honey-trap
honey trapper
honey tube
Honeyville
honey wagon
honeyware
honey wasp
honey weasel
honey wine
honeyword
honeywort
hunty
land of milk and honey
mad honey
manuka honey
maple honey
no money, no honey
pour honey in one's ear
pour honey into one's ear
pour honey on
sage honey
sour honey
sugar honey ice tea
thornless honey locust
virgin honey
western honey mesquite
you attract more flies with honey than vinegar
you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
you catch more flies with honey than vinegar
you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar