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1 4.4
To put the sweet liquid bees make on food to make it sweeter
  • verb
  • /ˈhʌni/
: 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
35 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
9 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

2 2.5

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

honey badger
  • Indian
1 7.6

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

1 7.9

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

honey do list
  • Informal
1 8.6

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

honey badger
  • Slang
1 8.2

A tough, brave person who keeps trying even in danger

1 8.6

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

honey hole
  • Informal
1 8.3

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

1 7.9

A thin hard sweet made with honey that breaks easily

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 eater
  • Australian
1 8.8

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

honey guide
  • Indian
1 9.6

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

honey bucket
  • Informal
1 9.1

A portable toilet used outdoors when there is no plumbing

Having the sweet smell of honey

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

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

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

honey bell
  • South African
1 9.9

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

1 6.5

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

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

9.3

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

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

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

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

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
7 4.2
to glaze
9 4.2
to honey
1 4.4
coat
62 2.5
to drizzle
21 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.