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A word that drips when plain sweet would just sit there flat.
means Sweetened or coated with honey — or, figuratively, made flatteringly sweet and persuasive, as in honeyed words.
from From Old English 'hunig,' the word for honey, a Germanic root shared with German 'Honig' and Dutch 'honing.' The '-ed' suffix turns the noun into an adjective, literally 'supplied with honey' — and English speakers soon stretched it from the literal coating to the figurative one, applying it to smooth talk by the late medieval period.
- flavor
- Describes voices and words as often as actual food
- origin
- From Old English hunig, sweetness made into a brag
- warning
- Honeyed words usually precede a request or a betrayal
- shelf life
- Like honey itself, the metaphor never spoils
tupelo honey — produced from white tupelo tree flowers in florida's apalachicola river basin, prized for its light color and slow crystallization
manuka honey — from new zealand leptospermum scoparium flowers, tested for antibacterial properties with umf rating system since the 1980s