HONEY
What does "HONEY" mean?
A sweet, sticky golden substance made by bees from flower nectar.
Meanings
- A sweet viscous food produced by bees from the nectar of flowers. She drizzled honey over the warm bread.
- A term of affection for a beloved person. Honey, can you pass me the keys? informal
- Something excellent or particularly fine of its kind. That old guitar is a real honey. informal
- Of a warm golden-brown colour, like honey. The late sun turned the fields a deep honey gold.
Did you know?
- Honey essentially never spoils: 3,000-year-old pots found in Egyptian tombs were still edible, thanks to its low water content and natural acidity.
- One worker bee makes only about a twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its whole life - your jar is the lifework of thousands of bees.
Word origin
From Old English 'hunig', from Proto-Germanic '*hunang-'; the Germanic word may originally have described the colour rather than the substance.
Remember it
HONEY hides ONE in the middle - it takes ONE bee a whole life to make barely a drop.
A little poem
Sun poured into glass-
a thousand small lives folded
into one slow gold.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the bees go on strike? They wanted shorter flowers and more honey - but the boss kept telling them to just deal with it, sweetie.
What it teaches
The sweetest things are slow work; a whole life of one creature may amount to a single drop.
Quick facts
What does HONEY mean?
A sweet, sticky golden substance made by bees from flower nectar.
Is HONEY a valid word?
Yes — HONEY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HONEY?
HONEY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HONEY come from?
From Old English 'hunig', from Proto-Germanic '*hunang-'; the Germanic word may originally have described the colour rather than the substance.
What can HONEY teach us?
The sweetest things are slow work; a whole life of one creature may amount to a single drop.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.