Definition of honey-sweet
: sweet with or as if with honey
- honey-sweet blossoms
- honey-sweet voice
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Origin and Etymology of honey-sweet
Middle English hony sweete, from Old English hunigswēte, from hunig honey + swēte sweet
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First Known Use: before 12th century
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearhoneysweet
Definition of honeysweet
: a white woolly perennial herb (Tidestromia oblongifolia) of the desert region of the U.S. forming broad flat mats and having stems and involucral bracts that often turn reddish with age and honey-scented yellow flowers
Origin and Etymology of honeysweet
honey-sweet
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