honey
/ˈhʌni/ noun A2- 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.
- A variety of this substance.
- Something sweet or desirable.
- A term of affection. · Honey, would you take out the trash?· Honey, I'm home.
- A woman, especially an attractive one. · Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
- A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
- Precum; pre-ejaculate.
Plural honeys
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
When she finally left it and walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight--“a haunt of ancient peace.” There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover.
## The Flies and the Honey-Pot
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.
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