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ˈhoney-suck Now only local.
Forms: 1 huniᵹsuge, hunisuge, -suce, 4–5 honysouke, 7– honey-suck.
[OE. huniᵹsúge, -súce, f. huniᵹ honey + súgan, súcan to suck; the ME. form represents the second of these.]
1. An earlier equivalent of the name honeysuckle (senses 1 and 2): used with the same laxity of application.
c725Corpus Gloss. 1214 Ligustrum, huniᵹsuge. a1100Ags. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 298/23 Lugustrum, hunisuce. 14..Voc. Ibid. 572/12 Cerifolium, honysouke. Ibid. 611/30 Serpillum, peletur vel honysouke. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cccclxxvii. 1018 Medow Trefoile is called..of some Suckles, and Honisuckes. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n., Honey-suck. (1) Flowers of Trifolium pratense... (2) Lonicera Periclymenum.
†b. = honeysuckle 1 b. Obs.
1388Wyclif Matt. iii. 4 His mete was honysoukis, and hony of the wode. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 593/24 Locusta, a honysouke.
†2. Honey ‘sucked’ or gathered by bees. Obs.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 645 Then they [Bees] flye not far from their own homes, but sustain themselves with their own Honey-suck already provided. |