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honey

noun
/ˈhʌni/

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.

  1. inherited from *hunagą✻
  2. inherited from *hunag✻
  3. inherited from huniġ
  4. inherited from hony

Definitions

  1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often…

    A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.

    • The honey in the pot should last for years.

  2. A variety of this substance.

    • 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...

  3. Nectar.

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Something sweet or desirable.

      • 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

    2. A term of affection.

      • Honey, would you take out the trash?
      • Honey, I'm home.
      • "So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey."

    3. A woman, especially an attractive one.

      • 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.

    4. A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet…

      A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

    5. Precum

      Precum; pre-ejaculate.

    6. Involving or resembling honey.

      • 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.

    7. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

    8. Honey-sweet.

      • 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.

    9. To sweeten

      To sweeten; to make agreeable.

    10. To add honey to.

    11. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing

      To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.

      • Honeying and making love.

    12. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary

      To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

      • [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.

    13. A surname.

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Derived

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 · +115 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for honey. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA