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honey-dipper

honey-dipper noun: a turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.

Noun

honey-dipper (plural honey-dippers)

  1. A turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.
    • He specialises in small items such as light pulls, ornamental eggs, and honey-dippers — and in true environmental fashion, Nick lets nothing go to waste.1991 July 27, Sandra Loy, “Country skills go on display”, in Herald Express, number 20,138, Devon, page II
    • Older stuffees may appreciate a variety of teas or coffees, perhaps with a honey-dipper and small jar of honey thrown in.1991 December 24, Sandy Dees-Baker, “Stocking stuffers: Grocery stores provide endless possibilites^([sic]) for the innovative Christmas shopper”, in Anderson Independent-Mail, volume 92, number 84...
  2. A worker who collects household sewage from sewage tanks.
    • “He deliberately dumped sewage into the grate [atop the storm drain] whenever an emergency arose,” [Jane F.] Barrett continued. “God forbid that he should have to pay a honey-dipper to come out and clean up the septic systems” on the site.1991 November 11, Kelly Gilbert, “Marina, manager convicted on pollution charges”, in The Evening Sun, volume 164, number 17, Baltimore, Md., page B3, column 6
    • The experience led to his new book “Outhouse Humor”, which is a collection of jokes, stories, songs, and poems about outhouses, and thunder-mugs, corncobs and honey-dippers, wasps and spiders and Sears Roebuck catalogues.1993 April 19, John Parris, “‘The Little Brown Shack Out Back’ is now a rare rural sight”, in Asheville Citizen-Times, volume 124, number 109, Asheville, N.C., page 1B, column 2

Examples of honey-dipper in a sentence

  • I’ve found the wood of older ceanothus shrubs to be good for carving items like spoons, and I imagine it’d work well for hand-turned items like honey-dippers, candle holders, etc.2002 March 14, Travis Semmes, “State boasts 60 different species of ceanothus”, in Santa Cruz Sentinel, volume 72, Santa Cruz, Calif., page...
  • Ackling finds pieces of driftwood along the shore, or interesting wooden clothespins, finials, and honey-dippers in an antique market.2004 November 5, Cate McQuaid, “Painter looks at life through a lens”, in The Boston Globe, volume 266, number 128, Boston, Mass., page D20:
  • I wrote a paper proclaiming their brilliance and superiority and revised it at a small café featuring wooden hive-shaped honey-dippers in silver honeypots at every table.2017, Naomi Shihab Nye, “Bees Were Better”, in If Bees are Few, University of Minnesota Press; quoted in Ted Kooser, “American Life in...
  • As a boy, he worked with the town honey-dipper to raise money for his family.1997 March 10, Christina Rogers, “What do you like, or dislike, about your hometown?”, in Daily Journal, Franklin, Ind., page 25, column 4:

Forms of honey-dipper

pluralhoney-dippers

Questions about honey-dipper

What does honey-dipper mean?
Honey-dipper means a turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey.
How do you use honey-dipper in a sentence?
I’ve found the wood of older ceanothus shrubs to be good for carving items like spoons, and I imagine it’d work well for hand-turned items like honey-dippers, candle holders, etc.
What part of speech is honey-dipper?
Honey-dipper is a noun.
What is the plural of honey-dipper?
The plural of honey-dipper is honey-dippers.

Words near honey-dipper in the dictionary

  1. honey-butter
  2. honey-butters
  3. honey-colored
  4. honey-comb
  5. honey-combs
  6. honey-dipper
  7. honey-dippers
  8. honey-do list
  9. honey-do lists
  10. honey-lipped
  11. honey-lotus

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