Honey \Hon"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Honeyed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Honeying.]
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use
endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or
complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." --Shak.
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Rough to common men,
But honey at the whisper of a lord. --Tennyson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Honeyed \Hon"eyed\, a.
1. Covered with honey.
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2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. --Milton.
[1913 Webster] honey eater
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
honeyed
adj 1: with honey added [syn: honied, syrupy]
2: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet,
mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet]
WordNet (r) 2.0
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "honeyed":
achingly sweet, adulatory, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso,
bittersweet, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blissful, buttery,
cajoling, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful,
compatible, complaisant, complimentary, congenial, cordial,
courtierly, courtly, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable,
euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant,
fair-spoken, fawning, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-spoken,
fine-toned, flattering, fulsome, genial, golden, golden-tongued,
golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying,
gushing, harmonious, heart-warming, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued,
honeysweet, insincere, insinuating, likable, liquid, mealymouthed,
melic, melliferous, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow,
melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nectareous,
nectarous, nice, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, pleasant,
pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving,
pleasureful, rewarding, rich, sacchariferous, satisfying,
silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable,
slimy, slobbery, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued,
soapy, soft-soaping, songful, songlike, sonorous, sour-sweet,
sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent,
sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding,
sweetened, sweetish, sycophantic, syrupy, tunable, tuneful,
unctuous, welcome, wheedling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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