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Honey

//ˈhʌni// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

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Adjective

1
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."
2
Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
"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."
3
Honey-sweet.
"But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]"

Adjective

1
of something having the color of honey wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. uncountable, usually
"The honey in the pot should last for years."
2
a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees wordnet
3
A variety of this substance. countable, usually
"The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way."
4
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment wordnet
5
Nectar. rare, uncountable, usually

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6
Something sweet or desirable. figuratively, uncountable, usually
"O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
7
A term of affection. uncountable, usually
"Honey, would you take out the trash?"
8
A woman, especially an attractive one. countable, informal, usually
"Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!"
9
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey. uncountable, usually
10
Precum; pre-ejaculate. uncountable, usually, vulgar

Verb

1
To sweeten; to make agreeable. transitive
2
sweeten with honey wordnet
3
To add honey to. transitive
4
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments. intransitive
"Honeying and making love."
5
To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. intransitive
"[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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

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