honey

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈhʌni/    /ˈhʌni/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans. uncountable,usually
    — The honey in the pot should last for years.
  2. A variety of this substance. countable,usually
    — The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
  3. Nectar. rare,uncountable,usually
  4. Something sweet or desirable. figuratively,uncountable,usually
    — O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
  5. A term of affection. uncountable,usually
    — Honey, would you take out the trash?
  6. A woman, especially an attractive one. countable,informal,usually
    — Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
  7. A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey. uncountable,usually
  8. Precum; pre-ejaculate. uncountable,usually,vulgar
动词 v.
  1. To sweeten; to make agreeable. transitive
  2. To add honey to. transitive
  3. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments. intransitive
    — Honeying and making love.
  4. To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. intransitive
    — [O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
形容词 adj.
  1. Involving or resembling honey.
    — So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
  2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
    — Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and squalor, and I almost knifed him before I collected myself and realized the hair was honeyer than my Swedish wife’s.
  3. Honey-sweet.
    — But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]

词形变化

honeys plural honies archaic,plural hony alternative,obsolete hunney alternative,pronunciation-spelling hunny alternative,pronunciation-spelling honeyer comparative honier comparative honeyest superlative honiest superlative hony alternative,obsolete hunney alternative,pronunciation-spelling hunny alternative,pronunciation-spelling honeys present,singular,third-person honeying participle,present honeyed participle,past honeyed past hony alternative,obsolete hunney alternative,pronunciation-spelling hunny alternative,pronunciation-spelling

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词源

词源 1
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
词源 2
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
词源 3
From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
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