honey up
honey up verb: to make (something) sweet, pleasant or agreeable.
Verb
honey up (third-person singular simple present honeys up, present participle honeying up, simple past and past participle honeyed up)
- To make (something) sweet, pleasant or agreeable.
- She honeyed up her voice.
- To cajole, suck up to or sweet-talk (someone).
- He honeys up his boss.
- Synonyms:
- butter up, fawn over, honey around, blandander, blandish, cajole, sweeten, fast-talk, canoodle, carny
Synonyms of honey up
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- collogue
- fleech
- inveigle
- soft-sawder
- soft-soap
- stroke
- sweet-talk
- twist
- wheedle
- apple-polish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brownnose
- dickride
- duchess
- fawn
- fellate
- flannel
- kiss someone's ass
- kiss someone's ring
- kiss up
- kowtow
- lick someone's ass
- lick someone's balls
- overflatter
- overpraise
- overrate
- suck up
- toady
- blandander
Forms of honey up
| third-person singular present | honeys up |
|---|---|
| present participle | honeying up |
| past participle | honeyed up |
| past | honeyed up |
Questions about honey up
- What does honey up mean?
- Honey up means to make (something) sweet, pleasant or agreeable.
- What part of speech is honey up?
- Honey up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of honey up?
- The past tense of honey up is honeyed up.
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