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honey-sweet

adj

Etymology

From Middle English hony-swete; equivalent to honey + sweet.

  1. inherited from hony-swete

Definitions

  1. As sweet as honey

    As sweet as honey; very sweet.

    • Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he.
    • Cheerfully, and in my honey-sweetest voice I asked: “Can you give me a dime for two nickels?”
    • She added that if I continued to bother Olga she would take steps I would not particularly enjoy. At her honey-sweetest of course, but “My husband and I do not care to have our daughter involved in friendships of this nature.”

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for honey-sweet. 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