honey
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), 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.
Inflected forms:
form: honeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honies
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: hony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hunney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: hunny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
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form: honeyer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: honier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: honeyest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: honiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hony
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hunney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: hunny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: honeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: honeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: honeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: honeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hony
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hunney
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: hunny
pos: verb
tags: alternative
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Senses:
gloss: A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The honey in the pot should last for years.
gloss: A variety of this substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining...
Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five...
gloss: Nectar.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
gloss: Something sweet or desirable.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
the honey of his language
gloss: A term of affection.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Honey, would you take out the trash?
Honey, I'm home.
"So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey."
gloss: A woman, especially an attractive one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
usually
examples: Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
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.
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.
gloss: A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Precum; pre-ejaculate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
vulgar
gloss: Involving or resembling honey.
pos: adj
examples: So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
Dim as the forming of / Dew in the warming of / Moonlight, they light on the petals; / All is revealed to them; / All!—from the sunniest / Tips to the honiest / Heart, whence they yield to them / Spice, through the darkness that settles.
“I say,” it said, “don’t gran’ma make the hunkiest frosted cookies, though?” / “My, yes, an’ gran’pa’s bees the honiest honey?” flashed back from Station Mary.
moll / Even to the least detail of love and duty / To win the dalliance of her majesty. / king hamlet / Dalliance? / moll / ’T is the honiest word that sticks / On my lord Osric’s tongue, like a dayfly’s wing / On a toad’s tongue-tip.
Its perfume is variously described as ‘divine’ and reminiscent of nuts. Of grapes it is the grapiest; of honey the honiest.
The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad speaks of the ātman as the honey (madhu) and as the “honiest” of all the honeys.
Have you tried Fuller's(?) organic honey beer? It's much, much nicer than Waggledance. Honeyer. Mmmm.
gloss: Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
pos: adj
examples: Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and squalor, and I almost knifed him before I collected myself and realized the hair was honeyer than my Swedish wife’s.
gloss: Honey-sweet.
pos: adj
examples: But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]
Mais il se ravisa et revint dire, de son air bonhomme : « Écoutez donc Lantier, j’ai besoin d’un homard…[…] »
No man has any business to say that his boy is honier than he was,—or is.
“Oh, my dears, I must tell you this. At dinner the other evening I made a really truly growly belted earl squirm. I had told him how much I liked a little speech he had made, when he turned on me in his most growly belted early manner. / “‘Do you say that, Lady Polly,’ he snorted, ‘because it is the truth or because it is the correct thing to say?’ / “‘Not being an earl,’ I replied in my honeyest voice, ‘I don’t recognise any difference between the two.’
“We’ve placed your arms in that position, Miss Day,” I said in my honeyest voice, “because it’s the safest just in case you have a fracture.[…]”
Then this guy stalled at my desk, fishing for his wallet, giving me the honeyest smile.
Then upside down by her tail she swings / And sings in the honeyest voice I’ve heard: / “One day I will grow a pair of wings / And become a furry Hummingbird.”
It was Neezer who had found Sally for us at his church, where, he testified, the woman sang “with the honeyest voice you ever heard. If her singing don’t make the Lord happy, nothing does.”
After hundreds of listens, Odessey and Oracle still sounds like a paragon of poignant psychedelic pop, rendered in orchestral splendor and adorned with indelible melodies that are to cry for, sung in the honeyest of tones by the angelically melancholy [Colin] Blunstone.
MEETHAN MADHU NE MEETHA MEHULA RE LOL, ETHI MEETHEE TE MORI MAT RE, JANANEE NI JOD SAKHI !
“Thanks honey, I love you.” / Kaya, “I like it when you say, honey.” / “I like it too, but you are honeyer than honey.”
gloss: To sweeten; to make agreeable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add honey to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Honeying and making love.
gloss: To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
Synonyms: sweetie
Related words: 🍯
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Derived words: Africanized honey bee
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bees and honey
behoney
bread and honey
comb-honey
crested honey buzzard
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don't get your honey where you make your money
enhoney
European honey buzzard
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honeybush
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honey child
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honeycomb
honeycombed
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Honey Creek
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Honeycrisp
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honeydew
honeydew melon
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Honeyville
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honey weasel
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land of milk and honey
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maple honey
no money, no honey
pour honey in one's ear
pour honey into one's ear
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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
honey around
honey up
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