honey

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)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.”

2. (countable, usually)A variety of this substance.

   “The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.”

   “If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining...”

   “Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five...”

3. (rare, uncountable, usually)Nectar.
4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Something sweet or desirable.

   “O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

   “the honey of his language”

5. (uncountable, usually)A term of affection.

   “Honey, would you take out the trash?”

   “Honey, I'm home.”

   “"So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey."”

6. (countable, informal, usually)A woman, especially an attractive one.

   “Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!”

   “It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money I'm gonna have to blow this town.”

   “College was wild. I was like a happy little white kid playing in a sandbox full of toys. Honeys, basketball, music, I indulged in all of that shit to the max. And oh yeah. I went to a couple of classes too. I wasn't totally ass-out stupid.”

7. (uncountable, usually)A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
8. (uncountable, usually, vulgar)Precum; pre-ejaculate.

adj

1. Involving or resembling honey.

   “So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.”

   “Dim as the forming of / Dew in the warming of / Moonlight, they light on the petals; / All is revealed to them; / All!—from the sunniest / Tips to the honiest / Heart, whence they yield to them / Spice, through the darkness that settles.”

   ““I say,” it said, “don’t gran’ma make the hunkiest frosted cookies, though?” / “My, yes, an’ gran’pa’s bees the honiest honey?” flashed back from Station Mary.”

   “moll / Even to the least detail of love and duty / To win the dalliance of her majesty. / king hamlet / Dalliance? / moll / ’T is the honiest word that sticks / On my lord Osric’s tongue, like a dayfly’s wing / On a toad’s tongue-tip.”

   “Its perfume is variously described as ‘divine’ and reminiscent of nuts. Of grapes it is the grapiest; of honey the honiest.”

2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.

   “Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and squalor, and I almost knifed him before I collected myself and realized the hair was honeyer than my Swedish wife’s.”

3. Honey-sweet.

   “But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]”

   “Mais il se ravisa et revint dire, de son air bonhomme : « Écoutez donc Lantier, j’ai besoin d’un homard…[…] »”

   “No man has any business to say that his boy is honier than he was,—or is.”

   ““Oh, my dears, I must tell you this. At dinner the other evening I made a really truly growly belted earl squirm. I had told him how much I liked a little speech he had made, when he turned on me in his most growly belted early manner. / “‘Do you say that, Lady Polly,’ he snorted, ‘because it is the truth or because it is the correct thing to say?’ / “‘Not being an earl,’ I replied in my honeyest voice, ‘I don’t recognise any difference between the two.’”

   ““We’ve placed your arms in that position, Miss Day,” I said in my honeyest voice, “because it’s the safest just in case you have a fracture.[…]””

verb

1. (transitive)To sweeten; to make agreeable.
2. (transitive)To add honey to.
3. (intransitive)To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.

   “Honeying and making love.”

4. (intransitive)To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

   “[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.”

name

1. A surname.