honey
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[edit] Etymology
Old English huniġ, from Common Germanic *hunagam or *hunangam. Cognate with Old Frisian hunig, Old Saxon honeg (Dutch honing), Old High German honag, honeg (German Honig), Old Norse hunang (Swedish honung).
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honey (countable and uncountable; plural honeys)
- (uncountable) A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees; (countable) a variety of this substance.
- A thing likened to honey for its sweetness, desirability, etc.
- 1595 Shakespeare, William, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91-93:
- O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
- A term of affection.
- Honey, would you take out the trash?
- (informal, countable) An attractive woman
- Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
- (color/colour) A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
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sweet substance produced by bees
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term of affection
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honey (comparative more honey, superlative most honey)
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- Describing a thing involving or resembling honey.
- 1599 Shakespeare, William, Henry V, Act 1, Sc. 2:
- So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
- 1599 Shakespeare, William, Henry V, Act 1, Sc. 2:
- (color/colour) A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey.
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- Serbo-Croatian: medeni
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