honeyer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]honeyer (plural honeyers)
- An obsequious person; a flatterer.
- 1893, Opie Read, A Tennessee Judge, page 15:
- I should be a flatterer, a honeyer of people. I go along and tell the truth.
- A person who keeps bees to produce honey.
- 2001, Robert Brian Ogden, In Pursuit of Liquid Gold, page 16:
- […] the beekeeper had twelve vasculo (small wicker hives), which indicates a bona-fide beekeeper and not a honeyer.
Adjective
[edit]honeyer
- comparative form of honey: more honey