Honked vs Honied - What's the difference?
honked | honied |
(honk)
(intransitive) To use a car horn.
To make a sound like a car horn.
To make the sound of a goose.
(informal) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
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. }}
As a verb honked
is (honk).As an adjective honied is
covered with or containing honey.honked
English
Verb
(head)honk
English
Verb
(en verb)- They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk .
- "Honk! " she said, beaming reassuringly through the window and flapping her arms.
honied
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Adjective
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