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Honey vs Toney - What's the difference?

honey | toney |

As adjectives the difference between honey and toney

is that honey is describing a thing involving or resembling honey while toney is .

As a noun honey

is (uncountable) a viscous, sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees often used to sweeten tea or to spread on baked goods.

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

    toney

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * 1918 , William Magney, The Hunt Ball Mystery , Chapter II:
    • The ball will be rather a toney affair."
  • * 1921 , D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl , Thomas Seltzer (1921), Chapter XII:
    • The really toney women of the place came to take tea in her room, and these little teas in the hospital were like a little elegant female conspiracy.
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