to honey
- verb
- /ˈhʌni/
- I'm doing the swing because this, this jacket, this jacket honeys, this jacket honeys.
Examples
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ROO: After we honey the honey, can I honey a honey?
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She decided to honey the biscuits before baking them to add a sweet glaze.
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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.
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That cheeky honey will honey twice before honeying our honey again.
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Please, honey, come back.
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I'll honey, I've I've thought of a name.
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I would honey, but Chaperone Fist is really beating up Mom.
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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.
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For the tea, I love to honey it to enhance the flavor.
Synonyms
Make food taste sweeter by adding sugar or make an offer more attractive
To add a sweet white substance from plants to food or drink to make it sweet
Idioms
A humorous way to say you find a woman extremely attractive
- Informal
Say nice words you do not mean to get something from someone
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
A honey bee bred from African and European bees that is very aggressive and spreads across the Americas
- Indian
A strong, fierce mammal from Africa and southern Asia that hunts at night and breaks into beehives
- US
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
- US
An animal from tropical America that lives in trees and uses its long tail to hold branches while eating fruit
- South African
A small African shrub with long hanging stems and yellow flowers that smell sweet
An edible mushroom with honey-colored caps that grows at tree bases and must be cooked before eating
- Specialized
A very large fungus made of connected underground parts that spreads and kills trees
- Specialized
A small part of a plant or animal that makes a sweet liquid to attract insects like bees
- Indian
A small African and Asian bird that eats honey and wax from bees and leads people to bee nests
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
- Australian
An Australian shrub with groups of sweet flowers that attract bees and birds
Dark sweet spread made by bees from sticky drops on leaves with a strong rich taste
A thorny small tree with deep roots that grows in dry areas and has sweet pods used as animal feed
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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.