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honey


hon·ey

H0262700 (hŭn′ē)n. pl. hon·eys 1. a. A sweet yellowish or brownish viscid fluid produced by various bees from the nectar of flowers and used as food.b. A similar substance made by certain other insects.2. A sweet substance, such as nectar or syrup.3. Sweetness; pleasantness: "The first few years could not have been all honey" (Nadine Gordimer).4. Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.5. Informal Something remarkably fine: a honey of a car.tr.v. hon·eyed or hon·ied (hŭn′ēd), hon·ey·ing, hon·eys 1. To sweeten with honey; add honey to.2. To make pleasant or appealing: His words were honeyed as he spoke.3. To give a yellow or golden color to.
[Middle English honi, from Old English hunig.]

honey

(ˈhʌnɪ) n1. (Cookery) a sweet viscid substance made by bees from nectar and stored in their nests or hives as food. It is spread on bread or used as a sweetening agent2. (Botany) any similar sweet substance, esp the nectar of flowers3. anything that is sweet or delightful4. (often capital) chiefly US and Canadian a term of endearment5. informal chiefly US and Canadian something considered to be very good of its kind: a honey of a car. 6. (modifier) of, concerned with, or resembling honeyvb, honeys, honeying, honeyed or honied7. (tr) to sweeten with or as if with honey8. (often foll by up) to talk to (someone) in a fond or flattering way[Old English huneg; related to Old Norse hunang, Old Saxon hanig, German Honig, Greek knēkos yellowish, Sanskrit kánaka- gold] ˈhoney-ˌlike adj

hon•ey

(ˈhʌn i)

n., pl. hon•eys, n. 1. a sweet viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers and stored in nests or hives as food. 2. this substance as used in cooking or as a spread or sweetener. 3. the nectar of flowers. 4. any of various similarly sweet viscid products produced by insects or in other ways. 5. something sweet, delicious, or delightful: the honey of flattery. 6. Informal. a. sweetheart; darling. b. (sometimes cap.) an affectionate or familiar term of address (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, subordinates, etc.). 7. Informal. something especially good of its kind: a honey of a car. adj. 8. of or like honey; sweet. 9. containing honey. v.t. 10. to talk flatteringly or endearingly to (often fol. by up). 11. to sweeten or flavor with or as if with honey. v.i. 12. to use flattery, endearing terms, etc., in an effort to obtain something (often fol. by up). [before 900; Middle English hony, Old English hunig, c. Old Saxon honeg, -ig, Old High German hona(n)g, Old Norse hunang] usage: Definition 6b is an affectionate term of address used to a child, sweetheart, etc. However, when used in the workplace or in social interactions with strangers, it is sometimes perceived as insulting or intrusive.

honey


Past participle: honied/honeyed
Gerund: honeying
Imperative
honey
honey
Present
I honey
you honey
he/she/it honeys
we honey
you honey
they honey
Preterite
I honied/honeyed
you honied/honeyed
he/she/it honied/honeyed
we honied/honeyed
you honied/honeyed
they honied/honeyed
Present Continuous
I am honeying
you are honeying
he/she/it is honeying
we are honeying
you are honeying
they are honeying
Present Perfect
I have honied/honeyed
you have honied/honeyed
he/she/it has honied/honeyed
we have honied/honeyed
you have honied/honeyed
they have honied/honeyed
Past Continuous
I was honeying
you were honeying
he/she/it was honeying
we were honeying
you were honeying
they were honeying
Past Perfect
I had honied/honeyed
you had honied/honeyed
he/she/it had honied/honeyed
we had honied/honeyed
you had honied/honeyed
they had honied/honeyed
Future
I will honey
you will honey
he/she/it will honey
we will honey
you will honey
they will honey
Future Perfect
I will have honied/honeyed
you will have honied/honeyed
he/she/it will have honied/honeyed
we will have honied/honeyed
you will have honied/honeyed
they will have honied/honeyed
Future Continuous
I will be honeying
you will be honeying
he/she/it will be honeying
we will be honeying
you will be honeying
they will be honeying
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been honeying
you have been honeying
he/she/it has been honeying
we have been honeying
you have been honeying
they have been honeying
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been honeying
you will have been honeying
he/she/it will have been honeying
we will have been honeying
you will have been honeying
they will have been honeying
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been honeying
you had been honeying
he/she/it had been honeying
we had been honeying
you had been honeying
they had been honeying
Conditional
I would honey
you would honey
he/she/it would honey
we would honey
you would honey
they would honey
Past Conditional
I would have honied/honeyed
you would have honied/honeyed
he/she/it would have honied/honeyed
we would have honied/honeyed
you would have honied/honeyed
they would have honied/honeyed
Thesaurus
Noun1.honey - a sweet yellow liquid produced by beeshoney - a sweet yellow liquid produced by beessweetener, sweetening - something added to foods to make them taste sweetermead - made of fermented honey and wateroenomel - wine mixed with honey
2.honey - a beloved personhoney - a beloved person; used as terms of endearmentbeloved, dear, dearest, lovelover - a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
Verb1.honey - sweeten with honeydulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten - make sweeter in taste
Adj.1.honey - of something having the color of honeychromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

honey

nounA person who is much loved:beloved, darling, dear, love, minion, precious, sweet, sweetheart, truelove.Informal: sweetie.Idiom: light of one's life.verb1. To make superficially more acceptable or appealing:candy, gild, sugar, sugarcoat, sweeten.2. To compliment excessively and ingratiatingly:adulate, blandish, butter up, flatter, slaver.Informal: soft-soap, sweet-talk.3. To persuade or try to persuade by gentle persistent urging or flattery:blandish, cajole, coax, wheedle.Informal: soft-soap, sweet-talk.
Translations
蜂蜜亲爱的宝贝儿

honey

(ˈhani) noun1. a sweet, thick fluid made by bees from the nectar of flowers. bread and honey. 蜂蜜 蜂蜜2. (especially American) darling (used when speaking to someone one loves). (尤在美國)蜜糖(對愛人的暱稱) 亲爱的，宝贝儿 ˈhoneybee noun a bee in a hive, bred for producing honey. 蜜蜂 蜜蜂ˈhoneycomb noun the mass formed by rows of wax cells in which bees store their honey. 蜂巢, 蜂房 蜜蜂窝，蜂房 ˈhoneymoon noun a holiday spent immediately after one's marriage. We went to London for our honeymoon; (also adjective) a honeymoon couple. 蜜月 蜜月

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honey


honey-do list

A list or collection of tasks or jobs one has been requested to perform or undertake, especially household duties or jobs, given to a person by their spouse or romantic partner. It is a pun on "honeydew" (a fruit), with "honey" referring to a common term of endearment, and "do" referring to a "to-do list." All I want to do on the weekends is relax, but my husband always has some honey-do list for me.See also: list

honey trap

1. An attraction, location, or sight designed to entice people to visit it, especially for monetary gain; a tourist trap. Even though I've lived in New York City for 10 years, I've never visited the Statue of Liberty. It's just a big honey trap, in my opinion.2. The use of an attractive person, especially a woman, to extract information from someone by means of seduction. Though it feels a little demeaning, I know that being used as a honey trap against the mafia leader is for the greater good.See also: honey, trap

honey-mouthed

Smooth, soothing, and sweet in voice, especially in a persuasive or seductive manner or intent. The king has fallen victim to the honey-mouthed advice of his power-hungry chancellor. Handsome and honey-mouthed, the young man was able to pick up any woman he wanted.

honey catches more flies than vinegar

Being kind and gentle produces more positive results than being rude or unpleasant. I don't understand why the boss is always yelling at us like that—doesn't he realize that honey catches more flies than vinegar?See also: catch, flies, honey, more, vinegar

you attract more flies with honey than vinegar

You are more apt to get the results you want when you use kindness, rather than anger or aggression. I think the kids would visit you more if you were nicer to them. You attract more flies with honey than vinegar, you know. A: "The board rejected my proposal!" B: "Well, maybe if you didn't scream at them every time something went wrong, they would be more eager to work with you. After all, you attract more flies with honey than vinegar."See also: attract, flies, honey, more, vinegar

land of milk and honey

A place of abundance that is free from want. The phrase comes from the Biblical description of the land promised to the Israelites. It might be better than where you came from, but don't think this is some utopia or land of milk and honey—we still have to work for what we have.See also: and, honey, land, milk, of

honeycakes

An affectionate nickname, as for one's significant other. Hey, honeycakes! How was your day? Honeycakes, can you pass the bread?

(as) sweet as honey

Exceptionally sweet, friendly, or kindly. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was as sweet as honey, but boy could she tell some raunchy jokes! He may seem sweet as honey right now, but he'll turn on you in an instant if you get in his way.See also: honey, sweet

honey cart

A vehicle that collects and transports excrement. Driving a honey cart must be one of the crappiest jobs out there—sorry for the pun.See also: cart, honey

honey fuck

vulgar slang A sex act undertaken in a tender and caring way. Andy seems like the type of guy who would treat you right in bed, which is perfect—your first time should be a honey fuck.See also: fuck, honey

a honey of a (something)

Something that is very special or remarkable, especially in comparison t other similar things. That's a honey of a deal, Mitch—you should take it. I heard that research team found a honey of a fossil down by the reservoir.See also: honey, of

honey wagon

1. A vehicle that collects and transports excrement. Driving a honey wagon must be one of the crappiest jobs out there—sorry for the pun.2. A truck that transports beer. Looking for a bar? Just follow the honey wagon.See also: honey, wagon

honeybunch

An affectionate nickname, as for one's significant other. Hey, honeybunch! How was your day? Honeybunch, can you pass the bread?

hometown honey

slang A romantic partner that one began to date before leaving their hometown to go to college. Often abbreviated with the initialism "HTH." Would you stop flirting with Dan? He's got a hometown honey!See also: honey

*sweet as honey

 and sweeter than honey; sweet as sugarvery sweet; charming. (*Also: as ~.) Larry's words were sweeter than honey as he tried to convince Alice to forgive him. Jill: Is Mary Ann nice? Jane: Yes, indeed. She's as sweet as honey. Your little girl is darling! Just as sweet as sugar.See also: honey, sweet

You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Prov. It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands. Jill: This meal is terrible. Let's get the restaurant manager over here and make a scene unless he gives us our money back. Jane: We might have more luck if we ask politely. You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.See also: can, catch, flies, honey, more, vinegar

the land of milk and honey

or

a land of milk and honey

LITERARYIf you call a country or place the land of milk and honey or a land of milk and honey, you mean that it is a place with plenty of food and resources, where people can make money easily and have good lives. Note: `Spilled' can also be spelled `spilt' in British English. Canada was the land of milk and honey. The land of opportunities. This was the first port of call for many refugees coming to Australia, expecting to find a land of milk and honey. Note: This expression is used in the Bible to describe the Promised Land of the Israelites. (Exodus 3:8) See also: and, honey, land, milk, of

milk and honey

prosperity and abundance. This expression alludes to the prosperity of the Promised Land of Israel in the Bible (Exodus 3:8).See also: and, honey, milk

a/the land of ˌmilk and ˈhoney

a place where life is pleasant and easy and people are very happy: She had always longed to travel to the United States and to see what she imagined as the land of milk and honey.This phrase comes from the Bible, referring to the Promised Land.See also: and, honey, land, milk, of

honeycakes

verbSee babycakes

honey

(ˈhəni) n. beer. Let’s stop at the happy shop and get some honey.

honey fuck

n. a gentle and loving act of sexual intercourse. (Taboo. Usually objectionable.) I told him I’d prefer a honey fuck to a bunny fuck any day. See also: fuck, honey

honey of a something

n. a very special something; an excellent example of something. This is a honey of a car. Wanna drive it? See also: honey, of, something

honey wagon

1. and honey cart n. any vehicle used for or designed for carrying excrement: a farm manure wagon; a tank truck used to pump out septic tanks; a tank truck used to pump out airplane toilets; a portable latrine truck used in movie making. I drove a honey cart in Hollywood for a year. How’s that for glamour? 2. n. a beer truck. What time does the honey wagon bring in new supplies? See also: honey, wagon

honey cart

verbSee honey wagonSee also: cart, honey

honeybunch

n. a sweetheart. (Also a term of address.) Look, honeybunch, let’s hurry up. We’re late.

catch more flies with honey than vinegar, one can

One can accomplish more by being nice than by being nasty. A version of this term appears in Cervantes’s Don Quixote (“Make yourself into honey and the flies will devour you”), and a more precise version appears about 100 years later, in Thomas Fuller’s Gnomologia: “More Flies are taken with a Drop of Honey than a Tun of Vinegar.” It is a proverb in most European languages.See also: can, catch, flies, honey, more, one

land of milk and honey, the

A place abounding in good things. The term comes from the Book of Exodus (3:8), where God tells Moses, “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians . . . unto a land flowing with milk and honey.”See also: and, land, milk, of

honey


honey,

sweet, viscid fluid produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers. The nectar is taken from the flower by the worker bee and is carried in the honey sac back to the hive. It is transformed into honey by enzymes produced in the honey sac, which convert the natural sucrose (a complex sugar) in the nectar into fructose and glucose (simple sugars). The sugary fluid is stored in open cells, which are capped with wax when the material has reached the consistency of honey. The formation of honey is accomplished by the evaporation of the excess water in air circulated by the moving wings of workers. The honey required for an average colony to maintain itself through a year has been estimated as being between 400 and 500 lb (180–225 kg). The excess of the hive's requirement is used by humans for food. Honey is marketed either in the comb or with the comb removed by straining, by centrifugal force, or by gravity. The flavor and color of honey depend upon the kind of flower from which the nectar was taken, e.g., linden honey, lavender honey, and wild rose honey. Much of that produced in the United States is the pale, delicately flavored alfalfa and clover honey. Among the numerous other blossoms yielding nectar are those of the basswood, buckwheat, orange, palmetto, sage, and tupelo. The leading producers of honey are China, Turkey, Argentina, Ukraine, and Russia. From earliest times until cane sugar became commercially important, honey was a major sweetening agent. Honey is easily absorbed and utilized by the body. It contains about 70% to 80% sugar; the rest is water, minerals and traces of protein, acids, and other substances.

Bibliography

See U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration, Beekeeping in the United States (rev. ed. 1980).

Honey

 

a sweet syrupy substance elaborated for food by worker bees, primarily from the nectar of flowers; a valuable human food product.

According to the natural source, a distinction is made between floral honey (from nectar) and honeydew honey (from sweet secretions on the leaves and stems of plants). The floral honeys include those obtained from linden, buckwheat, clover, sun-flower, willow herb, and other plants. The chemical composition of honey depends on the species of plant from which it is derived, climatic conditions, and the method of commercial processing. Floral honey is 13-20 percent water, over 80 percent carbohydrates (principally glucose and fructose; also sucrose, maltose, and others), 0.4 percent proteins, and 0.3 percent ash. Honey contains organic acids (malic, citric, gluconic), enzymes (amylase, catalase, invertase), aromatic and mineral substances (K, Na, Ca), small amounts of vitamins (B2, PP, C, B6, H, K, and E), alkaloids, and pigments.

Nectar that is freshly deposited in the cells of a honeycomb has a fluid consistency. As the water is evaporated, the nectar ripens, thickens, and becomes viscous. The enzyme invertase converts the sucrose in the nectar into glucose and fructose. After the honey ripens, the bees seal up the honeycombs with wax caps. The honey extracted from the honeycombs gradually crystallizes upon storage. First the surface crystallizes, and then the crystals gradually form toward the bottom. There are white (from willow herb), yellow (from white acacia, sainfoin, linden, sunflower), and dark brown (from buckwheat, heather) honeys. Most honeys are sweet, but some are stringent; the aroma and taste depend on the honey’s origin. The aggregate of flavor and aroma is called the bouquet of the honey. The viscosity of honey varies: acacia honey is fluid, and honeydew honey is sticky. Honeydew honey (and floral honey mixed with a considerable amount of honeydew) is harmful to bees.

Commercial honey is obtained from the combs by centrifugation in an extractor and sometimes by pressing. Honey is rarely sold in the honeycomb. Sometimes different varieties of honey are mixed to normalize the thickness and to obtain the desired aroma, color, and flavor. Barrels made of linden, beech, plane, willow, cedar, and alder serve as containers for honey. Honey turns dark from oak barrels and acquires a tarry odor from barrels of coniferous varieties. Honey is stored on premises that are free of other odors. Honey is valuable as a dietary and therapeutic agent (for example, to treat emaciation). It is also used in the food industry.

REFERENCES

Kablukov, I. A. O mede, voske, pchelinom klee i ikh podmesiakh, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1941.
Temnov, V. A. Tekhnologiia produktov pchelovodstva. Moscow, 1967.
Mladenov, S. Med i medolechenie. Sofia, 1969. (Translated from Bulgarian.)

V. CHUDAKOV

What does it mean when you dream about honey?

The sweet taste of honey is like the sweet taste of success. As a symbol, honey also means too much sweetness (“dripping like honey”). A dreamer who experiences this symbol might need to be less vulnerable and more honest in communicating with others.

honey

[′hən·ē] (food engineering) The sweet, viscous secretion composed principally of levulose and dextrose that is deposited in the honeycomb by the honeybee.

honey

any similar sweet substance, esp the nectar of flowers

Honey

(dreams)Sweet experiences and good health are in your subconscious and most likely in your life.

honey


hon·ey

(hŭn'ē), 1. Clarified honey, a saccharine substance deposited in the honeycomb by the honeybee, Apis mellifera; used as an excipient, as a flavor in gargles and cough remedies, and as a food. 2. In veterinary medicine, used as a wound or burn dressing. Synonym(s): mel (1) [A.S. hunig]

honey

A sweet, golden-brown, sticky fluid produced by honeybees from the nectar of flowers and stored in hives for food; honey has long been advocated as a healthy food that is superior to sugar.

honey

[AS. hunig] A sweet thick liquid substance produced by bees via the enzymatic digestion of the sucrose in nectar into fructose and glucose. The honey's color and flavor are determined by the flowers from which the nectar was obtained. Honey has been used by humans as a food since ancient times. Honey is composed of mostly fructose and glucose with a typical moisture content of about 17%. It is unsafe for human infants to consume honey because it can contain Clostridium botulinum spores. This is usually not an issue for older individuals, as their stomach acid is sufficient to inhibit the growth of this organism.

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honey


Related to honey: Honey pig
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Synonyms for honey

noun a person who is much loved

Synonyms

  • beloved
  • darling
  • dear
  • love
  • minion
  • precious
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • truelove
  • sweetie

verb to make superficially more acceptable or appealing

Synonyms

  • candy
  • gild
  • sugar
  • sugarcoat
  • sweeten

verb to compliment excessively and ingratiatingly

Synonyms

  • adulate
  • blandish
  • butter up
  • flatter
  • slaver
  • soft-soap
  • sweet-talk

verb to persuade or try to persuade by gentle persistent urging or flattery

Synonyms

  • blandish
  • cajole
  • coax
  • wheedle
  • soft-soap
  • sweet-talk

Synonyms for honey

noun a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

Related Words

  • sweetener
  • sweetening
  • mead
  • oenomel

noun a beloved person

Synonyms

  • beloved
  • dear
  • dearest
  • love

Related Words

  • lover

verb sweeten with honey

Related Words

  • dulcify
  • dulcorate
  • edulcorate
  • sweeten

adj of something having the color of honey

Related Words

  • chromatic
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