honier

Adjective

honey (comparative honeyer or honier, superlative honeyest or honiest)

1. Involving or resembling honey.
   • So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.
   • Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and...1964, Thomas Berger, “My Indian Wife”, in Little Big Man, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →LCCN, page 214
3. Honey-sweet.
   • But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]1876, Stephen J[oseph] Mac Kenna, Handfast to Strangers: A Novel, volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 137

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