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1 4.4
To put the sweet liquid bees make on food to make it sweeter
  • verb
  • /ˈhʌni/
translation icon : endulzar con miel
  • I'm doing the swing because this, this jacket, this jacket honeys, this jacket honeys.

Examples

  • ROO: After we honey the honey, can I honey a honey?

  • She decided to honey the biscuits before baking them to add a sweet glaze.

  • Having loved the edition of the honey, I decided to honey glaze the chicken pieces the next day.

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  • That cheeky honey will honey twice before honeying our honey again.

  • That cheeky honey will honey twice before honeying our honey again.

  • Please, honey, come back.

  • I'll honey, I've I've thought of a name.

  • I would honey, but Chaperone Fist is really beating up Mom.

  • I would rather you eat table sugar or sweeten with table sugar then I would you sugar sweeten with honey or Maple syrup or pureed fruits.

  • For the tea, I love to honey it to enhance the flavor.

Synonyms

to sweeten
vsto honey
25 3.0

Make food taste sweeter by adding sugar or make an offer more attractive

uses a specific sweet natural syrup rather than other sweet substances
to sugar
vsto honey
3 1.0

To add a sweet white substance from plants to food or drink to make it sweet

uses a sweet natural syrup instead of adding granulated sweet grains

Idioms

A humorous way to say you find a woman extremely attractive

9.9

Act very bravely and without backing down

Say nice words you do not mean to get something from someone

Phrasal Verbs

to honey up to
  • Informal
8.8

To please someone with too many compliments to get a favor

Compounds

3 1.4

A sweet sticky pastry like a spiral roll flavored with honey and cinnamon

A color that is yellowish brown like honey

1 2.5

A sweet spicy cake made with honey that people eat at holidays

Africanized honey bee
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A honey bee bred from African and European bees that is very aggressive and spreads across the Americas

honey badger
  • Slang
1 8.2

A tough, brave person who keeps trying even in danger

honey badger
  • Indian
1 7.6

A strong, fierce mammal from Africa and southern Asia that hunts at night and breaks into beehives

honey do list
  • Informal
1 8.6

A list of small jobs one partner asks the other to do at home

1 8.6

A tall North American tree with long twisted seed pods and hard reddish-brown wood

A form of honey in which part of the sugar has formed small crystals, making it thick or solid

A plant that lives for many years with bright yellow flowers that attract bees and butterflies

7.9

An animal from tropical America that lives in trees and uses its long tail to hold branches while eating fruit

honey bell
  • South African
9.9

A small African shrub with long hanging stems and yellow flowers that smell sweet

9.3

A tropical American tree that bears small sweet juicy fruits with green skin

honey bucket
  • Informal
9.1

A portable toilet used outdoors when there is no plumbing

A large hunting bird that eats young bees and small animals like mice and lizards

A thin hard sweet made with honey that breaks easily

honey eater
  • Australian
8.8

A bird that uses a long thin beak to drink nectar from flowers

An edible mushroom with honey-colored caps that grows at tree bases and must be cooked before eating

honey fungus
  • Specialized
7.0

A very large fungus made of connected underground parts that spreads and kills trees

honey gland
  • Specialized
7.7

A small part of a plant or animal that makes a sweet liquid to attract insects like bees

honey guide
  • Indian
9.6

A small African and Asian bird that eats honey and wax from bees and leads people to bee nests

honey hole
  • Informal
8.3

A place where many good things are found, often a favorite fishing spot

A thorny small tree with deep roots that makes sweet pods eaten by farm animals

A honey-colored edible mushroom that grows near tree roots in late summer and autumn and must be cooked before eating

A plant that makes sweet liquid bees use to make honey

honey-flower
  • Australian
9.1

An Australian shrub with groups of sweet flowers that attract bees and birds

To speak in a sweet, flattering way to hide real intentions

Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste

Having the sweet smell of honey

A thing that is very sweet and makes you feel happy

A thorny small tree with deep roots that grows in dry areas and has sweet pods used as animal feed

How Coated

to smother
20 4.2
to glaze
33 4.2
to honey
1 4.4
coat
92 2.5
to drizzle
18 2.7

Surface Forms

honey infinitive
honeyed past
honeyed past participle
honeying present participle
honeys third person singular

Etymology

Honey as a verb meaning to sweeten comes from the food made by bees; to 'honey' something is to put honey on it or make it sweeter, like honey on nuts or in tea. So to 'honey' food is simply to add honey or a sweet, shiny coating.