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honied hon·ied

Spelling: [huhn-eed]

IPA: /ˈhʌn id/

Honied is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in honied (dehino).

Definitions for honied

noun

1. a sweet, viscid fluid produced by bees from the nectar collected from flowers, and stored in nests or hives as food.
2. this substance as used in cooking or as a spread or sweetener.
3. the nectar of flowers.
4. any of various similarly sweet, viscid products produced by insects or in other ways.
5. something sweet, delicious, or delightful:
6. Informal. a person for whom one feels love or deep affection; sweetheart; darling.
7. (sometimes initial capital letter) an affectionate or familiar term of address, as to a child or romantic partner (sometimes offensive when used to strangers, casual acquaintances, subordinates, etc., especially by a male to a female).
8. Informal. something of especially high quality, degree of excellence, etc.:

adjective

1. honeyed.
2. of, like, or pertaining to honey; sweet.
3. containing honey or flavored or sweetened with honey.
4. containing, consisting of, or resembling honey:
5. flattering or ingratiating:
6. pleasantly soft; dulcet or mellifluous:

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to talk flatteringly or endearingly to (often followed by up).
2. to sweeten or flavor with or as if with honey.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to use flattery, endearing terms, etc., in an effort to obtain something (often followed by up):

Origin of honied

before 900; Middle English hony, Old English hunig; cognate with Dutch, German honig, Old Norse hunang; akin to Greek knēkós pale yellow, tawny

Examples for honied

Why have I listened to the honied silver of your seducing accents?

Mellitum venenum, blanda oratio—A flattering speech is honied poison.

She leans forward, and her ear drinks in his honied words; as her head is supported by her snowy arm.

Tis hard for fly, in such a honied flood, To use her eyes, far more her wings or feet.

The Losengour or pleasant flatterer was too lightly believed, and honied words made more harmful the deceitful error.

It was like rolling the honied tang of a cordial beneath his tongue.

But, as we have seen, honied is found in Milton; and Shakespeare also uses it in Hen.

One would have said he had watched the honied meals of many butterflies.

"That gown is perfect on you," she remarked in honied accents.

And so he managed those children of a larger growth, to whose ears his lips distilled the honied eloquence of Sunday exhortation.