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Honey vs Bunny - What's the difference?

honey | bunny |

As nouns the difference between honey and bunny

is that honey is (uncountable) a viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods while bunny is a culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches or bunny can be a swelling from a blow; a bump or bunny can be a rabbit, especially a juvenile.

As adjectives the difference between honey and bunny

is that honey is describing a thing involving or resembling honey while bunny is (not comparable) in skiing, easy or unchallenging or bunny can be resembling a bun.

As a verb honey

is to be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.

honey

English

(wikipedia honey)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees. Often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.
  • (countable) A variety of this substance.
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  • (figuratively) Something sweet or desirable.
  • * 1595 , , Act 5, Scene 3, lines 91–93:
    • O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the honey of his language
    • Honey , would you take out the trash?
    Honey , I'm home.
  • (countable, informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
    • Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
  • A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

    • Synonyms

    * (sweet fluid from bees) (l) * (term of affection) sweetie

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Describing a thing involving or resembling honey.
  • * 1599 William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act 1, Sc. 2 :
    • So work the honey -bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
  • A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of honey.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Honeying and making love.
  • To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
  • * Tennyson
    • Rough to common men, / But honey at the whisper of a lord.

    Derived terms

    * hon * honey badger * honey bear * honey bucket * honey bun * honey bunch * honey dipper * honey fungus * honey guide * honey locust * honey mesquite * honey mouse * honey myrtle * honey parrot * honey plant * honeybee * honeybun * honey-buzzard * honeycomb * honeycomb moth * honeycombed * honeycreeper * honeydew * honeydew melon * honeyeater * honeyed * honeymoon * honeysucker * honeysuckle * honey-sweet * land of milk and honey * western honey mesquite

    See also

    * * apis mellifica * diabetes mellitus * hydromel * melilot * melliferous * mellifluous * melliphagous * mellitic acid * molasses * oenomel English affectionate terms

    bunny

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (bunnies)
  • A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.
  • A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.
  • Any small drain or culvert.
  • A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.
  • A small pool of water.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bony, .

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (bunnies)
  • A swelling from a blow; a bump.
  • (mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

    • Etymology 3

    From .

    Noun

    (bunnies)
  • A rabbit, especially a juvenile.
  • A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.
  • (sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.
  • (South Africa) bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry
  • * 2008 , Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa (page 258)
    • Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies . You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.
    Derived terms
    * angst bunny * badge bunny * bunny girl * bunny rabbit * cuddle bunny * dust bunny * Easter Bunny * gym bunny * snuggle bunny * that's the bunny * bunny wunny * snow bunny

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) In skiing, easy or unchallenging.
    • Let’s start on the bunny hill.
    Synonyms
    * nursery

    Etymology 4

    From .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a bun
    • Synonyms
    * (resembling a bun) bunlike