honey

nounlover

Synonyms for honey

noun lover

Antonyms for honey

Word Origin & History

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.

Example Sentences for honey

What mattered it that the honey of it was as ashes in her mouth?

"It's not the least mite I'm blaming you, honey," said Katy.

We shall find flowers as large as trees, fruits sweeter than honey.

Was he loaded with millet-seed on one side and honey on the other?

The waitress had brought the tea and bread and honey, and they waited until she had gone.

Send them to table hot, and eat them with butter, honey, or molasses.

Spill it all out, I say, an' make the world smell as sweet as honey.

We'd have oxen roasted whole, an' honey—an'—but that's as fur as I can git.

An' Josh he got kind o' fretful to her, an' she to him, an' 'Mandy was all honey an' cream.

Bring some of that cake you baked to-day, honey—and do brace up!

honey

Synonyms for honey

Antonyms for honey

beau

beloved

blarney

broad

cower

honey

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