honey-sweet

1 of 2

adjective

: sweet with or as if with honey

honey-sweet blossoms

honey-sweet voice

honeysweet

2 of 2

noun

: 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

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

Middle English hony sweete, from Old English hunigswēte, from hunig honey + swēte sweet

Noun

honey-sweet

First Known Use

Adjective

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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