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honeybags

honeybags is the plural of honeybag.

Meaning of honeybag

Noun

honeybag (plural honeybags)

  1. A pouch in a honey bee where it stores honey for later regurgitation and storage; a bee's crop.
    • good monsieur, get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bagc. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...

Questions about honeybags

What is honeybags the plural of?
Honeybags is the plural of honeybag.

Words near honeybags in the dictionary

  1. honey-trap
  2. honey-traps
  3. honeybadger
  4. honeybadgers
  5. honeybag
  6. honeybags
  7. Honeyball
  8. honeybee
  9. honeybees
  10. honeybell
  11. honeybells

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