honeyer

English

Etymology

honey +‎ -er

Noun

honeyer (plural honeyers)

  1. An obsequious person; a flatterer.
    • 1893, Opie Read, A Tennessee Judge, page 15:
      I should be a flatterer, a honeyer of people. I go along and tell the truth.
  2. A person who keeps bees to produce honey.
    • 2001, Robert Brian Ogden, In Pursuit of Liquid Gold, page 16:
      […] the beekeeper had twelve vasculo (small wicker hives), which indicates a bona-fide beekeeper and not a honeyer.

Adjective

honeyer

  1. comparative form of honey: more honey
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