Honey

Noun

 * 1)  A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.
 * 2)  A variety of this substance.
 * 3)  Something sweet or desirable.
 * 4) * 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91–93:
 * O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
 * 1) A term of affection.
 * Honey, would you take out the trash?
 * 1)  A woman, especially an attractive one.
 * Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
 * 1) A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

Adjective

 * 1) Describing a thing involving or resembling honey.
 * 1599 Shakespeare, William, Henry V, Act 1, Sc. 2:
 * So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
 * 1) A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey.

Thesaurus
Jell-O, ace, ambrosia, angel, artificial sweetener, babe, baby, baby-doll, beaut, beloved, blackstrap, blancmange, blarney, butter, butter up, buttercup, calcium cyclamate, candy, cane syrup, captive, catch, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, clover honey, comb honey, comfit, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture, conquest, conserve, coquette, corker, corn syrup, crackerjack, cyclamates, daisy, dandy, darb, darling, date, dear, deary, dilly, doll, dream, duck, duckling, dulcify, edulcorate, edulcoration, flame, flirt, frosting, gelatin, get around, glaze, heartthrob, hon, honey bunch, honey child, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, humdinger, icing, inamorata, jam, jelly, jolly, kid along, killer-diller, knockout, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lay it on, lollapaloosa, love, lover, lulu, maple syrup, marmalade, meringue, molasses, mousse, mull, nectar, oil, overdo it, peach, pet, petkins, pip, pippin, play up to, precious, precious heart, preserve, saccharification, saccharify, saccharin, snookums, soap, sodium cyclamate, soft-soap, soften up, sorghum, steady, string along, stroke, sugar, sugar off, sugar-making, sugarcoat, sugaring off, sweet, sweet patootie, sweet stuff, sweeten, sweetener, sweetening, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweetmeat, sweets, syrup, the nuts, treacle, truelove, tutti-frutti, vamp, vampire, whipped cream, whiz

Etymology
honig:, from hunig:, from  (cf.  honing:,  Honig:, SV undefined honung:), from  (cf. Welsh canecon: 'gold', Latin canicae: 'bran', Old Prussian cucan: 'brown', Albanian qengjë: 'beehive', Ancient Greek κνηκὸς undefined: 'yellowish', Sanskrit undefined: 'gold, wealth').

Noun

 * Albanian: mjalti
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: (ʕásal),  (šáhd)
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian:
 * Asturian: miel
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: tament, tamemt
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 蜂蜜 (fēngmì), 蜜 (mì)
 * Crimean Tatar: bal
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: медь (medj)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: anyĩtsi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: mîl
 * Gamilaraay: warrul
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: eirete
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मधु (madhu), शहद (šahd)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: melle
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蜂蜜 (はちみつ, hachímitsú)
 * Kinyarwanda: ubuki
 * Korean: 꿀 (kkul), 밀 (蜜, mil)
 * Kurdish:
 * Ladin: mil
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: medus
 * Lithuanian:, medùs
 * Lower Sorbian:
 * Luxembourgish: Hunneg
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: ghasel
 * Navajo: tsísʼná bitłʼizh
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Ossetian:
 * Digor:
 * Iron:
 * Persian: (angabin),  ('asal),  (šahd)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: mel, mel d'avieuls, mèl, mèl d'aviuls, meal, mêl, meil d'aviöls
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: (nc 11),
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pulut-pukyutan
 * Tamil: தேன்
 * Telugu: (tEne)
 * Tetum: bani-been
 * Tupinambá: eíra, eireté
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, мід
 * Urdu: (madhu),  (šahd) ,  ('asal) ,  (angabīn)
 * Uyghur: ھەسەل
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: miel
 * Welsh: mêl
 * Western Apache: gosnih
 * Yiddish:


 * Arabic: حبيبي
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 寶貝, 宝贝, 親愛的, 亲爱的, 哈你
 * Dutch: ,
 * Erzya: вечкемнем (vechkemn'em)
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: γλύκα, γλυκιά
 * Icelandic: elskan


 * Japanese: ハニー
 * Korean: 애인
 * Kurdish:
 * Luxembourgish: Schazi, Häerzi
 * Macedonian: шеќерче
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: душенька, голубушка, милая
 * Scottish Gaelic: rùn, rùnag
 * Slovak: miláčik
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * Crimean Tatar: bal
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: μελί, μελόχρουν
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: bal rengi

Adjective

 * : medeni

Derived terms

 * hon
 * honey badger
 * honey bear
 * honey bucket
 * honey bun
 * honey bunch
 * honey dipper
 * honey fungus
 * honey guide
 * honey locust
 * honey mesquite


 * honey mouse
 * honey myrtle
 * honey parrot
 * honey plant
 * honeybee
 * honeybun
 * honey-buzzard
 * honeycomb
 * honeycomb moth
 * honeycombed
 * honeycreeper


 * honeydew
 * honeydew melon
 * honeyeater
 * honeyed
 * honeymoon
 * honeysucker
 * honeysuckle
 * honey-sweet
 * land of milk and honey
 * western honey mesquite