Sekirov Dictionary

honey

/ˈhʌni/

noun 8
verb 4
adjective 3
forms 8
phrases 7

noun8

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a sweet, golden food that bees make from flowers
- The honey in the pot should last for years.
•
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. — 1908
•
A term of affection.
- Honey, would you take out the trash?
- Honey, I'm home.
•
(figurative) 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. — 1591
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
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(informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
- Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
(rare) Nectar.
(vulgar) Precum; pre-ejaculate.

verb4

To sweeten; to make agreeable.
To add honey to.
•
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
- Honeying and making love. — 1599
•
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. — 1847

adjective3

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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. — 1599
Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
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Honey-sweet.
- But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […] — 1876

forms

honeyed · honeying · honeys · honies · honeyer · honier · honeyest · honiest

Phrases with honey

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