Horny vs Honey - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between horny and honey

is that horny is hard or bony, like an animal's horn while honey is describing a thing involving or resembling honey.

As a noun honey is

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.

horny

English

Adjective

(er)

Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.

Having horns

"In 1997, 4th and 5th grade Waterville Elementary students told me they saw Short-horned lizards (commonly known as Horny toads) all around their area." http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/projects/waterville/begin.html

(informal, vulgar) Sexually aroused.

That girl makes me feel horny .

* {{quote-book, year=1949, author=Henry Miller, title=Sexus

, passage=Her thick, gurgling voice saying...: "Get it in all the way... please, please do... I’m horny ."}}

* {{quote-journal, year=1971, date=October, journal=Black World, page=65/1

, passage=Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.}}

Synonyms

* (hard or bony) callous, coarse, coarsened, hardened, rough * (having horns) horned * (sexually aroused) randy, toey, excited; see also * See also

Derived terms

* (sexually aroused) horniness

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.

* '>citation

(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