honeying
- 1Present participle and gerund of honey.
She was honeying her tea when the phone rang.
Honeying the critics with praise, the director hoped for kinder reviews.
Note
A form that keeps honey's full spelling: the -ey stays before -ing, giving honeying rather than honying. The verb works with or without an object. With one, it means sweetening, either literally with honey or figuratively with kind words. Without one, it means coaxing, talking fondly or fawning. As a gerund it names the behavior itself, so a reader may meet all that honeying as a noun phrase.
He kept honeying and pleading until she finally agreed.
All that honeying fooled no one at the meeting.
honeying is a form of honey
honey, verb: To sweeten something with honey, or to make words or demands more pleasant or agreeable. Full entry
- Spelling
- honey → honeying: add -ing
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