honey
Meaning
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- A viscous, gold-coloured sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
- A variety of this substance.
- Nectar.
- Something sweet or desirable.
- A term of affection.
- (informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
- A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
Concepts
honey
darling
sweetheart
dear
bee
sweetie
nectar
syrup
juice
beloved
love
sugar
honeycomb
beehive
sugarbag
dearest
sweet
mel
butter
oil
my dear
honeybun
kind of liquor
and bread
wheat
lover
wasp
bee honey
fat
grease
wax
honey-coloured
ducky
compliment
flatter
baby
cutie
dearie
jessom
Donald
French dressing
Harry
buttermilk
chuff
come
cream
cum
cumin
curd
duck butter
face cream
fetch
flame
flip
frame
freak
frig
frock
fuck
futz
goo
goose grease
gravy
jelly
jism
jizz
lather
load
lot
malt
mayonnaise
melted butter
mess
mettle
milk
muck
oats
ointment
paste
pineapple
protein
pudding
quince
rice pudding
roe
root
scum
seed
slime
smeg
spoof
spooge
spuff
spunk
tallow
tapioca
toothpaste
wad
water of life
whipped cream
yogurt
hot fish yoghurt
whore's milk
nut custard
Zinzanbrook
joombye
tatty water
French-fried ice-cream
tail-juice
baby batter
Aphrodite's Evostick
spaff
population paste
gism
father-stuff
Valentines Day porridge
pugwash
love butter
banana yoghurt
Cupid's toothpaste
liquid hairdressing
manfat
gak
man cake batter
Gloy
man-fat
tadpole yoghurt
prick-juice
cumshot
spunck
doll spit
love nectar
man oil
white blow
baby gravy
gonad glue
man mayonnaise
cock porridge
herbalz
baby juice
hocky
white wee-wee
splooge
spla water
manmuck
hot juice
gentleman's relish
cock snot
hot milk
jizzle
little tadpoles
wife
heart
mind
wild bee
Toblerone
gum
Frequency
Hyphenated as
hon‧ey
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhʌni/
Etymology
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare West Frisian hunich, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare Swedish honung), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks. Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
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