Honeyname

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  A surname.

honeynoun/ˈhʌni/

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  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.
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  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...
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  rareNectar.

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  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
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  A term of affection.

  • Honey, would you take out the trash?
  • Honey, I'm home.
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  informalA 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.
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  A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

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  vulgarPrecum; pre-ejaculate.

honeyadj/ˈhʌni/

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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.
  • 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.
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  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.
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  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…[…] »

honeyverb/ˈhʌni/

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  To sweeten; to make agreeable.

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  To add honey to.

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

  • Honeying and making love.
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  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.