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Antonyms for honey

Grammar : Noun
Spell : huhn-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhʌn i


Definition of honey

Origin :
  • Old English hunig, from Proto-Germanic *hunagam- (cf. Old Norse hunang, Swedish honung, Old Saxon huneg, Old Frisian hunig, Middle Dutch honich, Dutch honig, Old High German honang, German Honig "honey"); perhaps from PIE *k(e)neko- "yellow, golden" (cf. Sanskrit kancanum, Welsh canecon "gold"). The more common Indo-European word is represented by Gothic miliþ (from PIE *melith "honey;" see Melissa). A term of endearment from at least mid-14c. Meaning "anything good of its kind" is 1888, American English.
  • noun lover
Example sentences :
  • What mattered it that the honey of it was as ashes in her mouth?
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • "It's not the least mite I'm blaming you, honey," said Katy.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • We shall find flowers as large as trees, fruits sweeter than honey.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • Was he loaded with millet-seed on one side and honey on the other?
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • The waitress had brought the tea and bread and honey, and they waited until she had gone.
  • Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Send them to table hot, and eat them with butter, honey, or molasses.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Spill it all out, I say, an' make the world smell as sweet as honey.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • We'd have oxen roasted whole, an' honey—an'—but that's as fur as I can git.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • An' Josh he got kind o' fretful to her, an' she to him, an' 'Mandy was all honey an' cream.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Bring some of that cake you baked to-day, honey—and do brace up!
  • Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower

Synonyms for honey

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