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honey joys

honey joys noun: party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases.

Noun

honey joys pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, plural, plural-only) Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases.
    • Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles! I also have to bake a mermaid cake!2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children
    • And she also said she knows how to make honey joys. We haven't had them since my sixth birthday.2020, Fiona Palmer, Tiny White Lies

Origin of honey joys

Though it was apparently a prevalent snack in shops since the 1930s, its first definitive known mention was in a 1938 as a recipe in a newspaper. The origin of the name is unverifiable, as its creator is untraceable.

Questions about honey joys

What does honey joys mean?
Honey joys means party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases.
What part of speech is honey joys?
Honey joys is a noun.

Words near honey joys in the dictionary

  1. honey guides
  2. honey hole
  3. honey holes
  4. honey house
  5. honey houses
  6. honey joys
  7. honey kite
  8. honey kites
  9. honey locust
  10. honey locusts
  11. honey lotus

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