honey

noun

1. 1

   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. 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. 3

   rareNectar.

4. 4

   figurativeSomething 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

5. 5

   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."

6. 6

   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.

   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.

7. 7

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

8. 8

   Precum; pre-ejaculate.

adjective

1. 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.

   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.

   moll / Even to the least detail of love and duty / To win the dalliance of her majesty. / king hamlet / Dalliance? / moll / ’T is the honiest word that sticks / On my lord Osric’s tongue, like a dayfly’s wing / On a toad’s tongue-tip.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   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.

   “We’ve placed your arms in that position, Miss Day,” I said in my honeyest voice, “because it’s the safest just in case you have a fracture.[…]”

verb

1. 1

   To sweeten; to make agreeable.

2. 2

   To add honey to.

3. 3

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

   Honeying and making love.

4. 4

   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.

Forms

plural

honeys, honies

comparative

honeyer, honier

superlative

honeyest, honiest

past tense

honeyed

past participle

honeyed

present participle

honeying

third person singular

honeys