Honied vs Ponied - What's the difference?
honied | ponied |
Covered with or containing honey
* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=William A. Alcott, title=The Young Mother, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It must be buttered, or honied , or toasted, or soaked in milk, or dipped in gravy. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=John L. Stoddard, title=Poems, chapter=, edition=
, passage=One of the pair Is a woman fair, With parted, smiling lips; For her each hour A honied flower, And she the bee that sips. }}
As sweet as honey
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Shapes of Clay, chapter=, edition=
, passage=From the same lips the honied phrases fall That still are bitter from cascades of gall. }}
(pony)
Any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands.
(regional) A small serving of an alcoholic beverage.
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 193:
* 2010 , Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays: Tales from an Ordinary Glasgow East End Childhood ,
(Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) A serving of 140 millilitres of beer.
(UK, slang) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
(US, slang) A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
(Cockney rhyming slang) (from "pony and trap" ) Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
To lead (a horse) from another horse.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Of little worth.
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As an adjective honied
is covered with or containing honey.As a verb ponied is
(pony).honied
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(wikipedia pony)Etymology 1
1659 from (etyl) (cognate to English foal).Noun
(ponies)- Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length.
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- I did not even know what a ‘pony'’, a small chaser of beer, was. But of course I could not admit that. So putting on an air of nonchalance, and a deep voice, I strolled into a pub with one of the other equally naive guys and we ordered two ' ponies of beer.
- ‘McEwans?’ asked the barman.
- ‘Naw - ponies ’ said I.