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▪ I. honeymoon, n.|ˈhʌnɪˌmuːn|
1. a. ‘The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure’ (Johnson); originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of newly-married persons to the changing moon which is no sooner full than it begins to wane; now, usually, the holiday spent together by a newly-married couple, before settling down at home.
1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 14 It was yet but hony moone. 1552Huloet, Hony mone, a terme prouerbially applied to such as be newe maried, whiche wyll not fall out at the fyrste, but thone loueth the other at the beginnynge excedyngly, the likelyhode of theyr exceadynge loue appearing to aswage, y⊇ which time the vulgar people cal the hony mone, Aphrodisia, feriæ, hymenæ. 1612Breton Cornucopia (T.), And now their honey-moon, that late was clear, Doth pale, obscure, and tenebrous appear. 1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxxv. (1739) 161 The first year of her Marriage was Honey-moon with her; she thought nothing too dear for the King. 1656Blount Glossogr., Hony-moon, applyed to those marryed persons that love well at first, and decline in affection afterwards; it is hony now, but it will change as the Moon. [1693Oxford Act 3 Brisk and Bonny, As Bridegroom's self, in Moon-call'd-Hony.] 1801M. Edgeworth Out of Debt i. Wks. 1832–3 IV. 196 Mr. and Mrs. Ludgate went down in the hoy to Margate, to spend the honeymoon in style. 1880Dixon Windsor III. ix. 89 They kept their honey-moon for a year.
b. transf. The first warmth of newly established friendly relations.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 268 It being now but Honnie Moone, I endeauoured to courte it with a grace. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. ii. §8 Kingdoms have their honey⁓moon, when new Princes are married unto them. 1735–8Bolingbroke On Parties 120 In the Honey-moon of his Accession. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. IX. 87 Spain, in the honey-moon of her new servitude. 1867Goldw. Smith Three Eng. Statesmen (1882) 7 The brief honeymoon of the new king and his parliament. 1969Daily Tel. 9 Sept. 1/2 MPs fear that the honeymoon between the troops and the civilians might be over. Ibid. 13 Sept. 3 It is an open secret that the honeymoon between Xerox and Rank Organisation is over. 1971Guardian 15 Jan. 12/1 The Government has had its honeymoon, free from captious criticism, as Mr Wilson promised.
c. second honeymoon, a holiday or trip, resembling a honeymoon, taken by a couple who have been married for some time.
1872Princess of Wales Let. 31 Jan. in G. Battiscombe Queen Alexandra (1969) viii. 118 This quiet time we two have spent here together now has been the happiest days of my life... It has been our second honeymoon. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 152 So Taffy and his wife have come for their second honeymoon, their Indian-summer honeymoon, alone. 1910Nat. Police Gaz. 16 July 3/4 They acted as if they were on their second honeymoon. 1967‘M. Hunter’ Cambridgeshire Disaster xxi. 137 They began what he called an extended second honeymoon, driving where she liked.
2. attrib. and Comb., as honeymoon couple, honeymoon period, honeymoon trip, etc.; honeymoon suite = bridal suite.
1904Daily Chron. 31 Mar. 6/6 The young honeymoon couple were heard of at Newport, Mon. 1970W. J. Burley To kill a Cat v. 81 A honeymoon couple stood close, arms round each other.
1953E. Simon Past Masters II. i. 69 The Labour Government's honeymoon period looks like having come to an end. 1970Guardian 9 Dec. 11/1 This Government's honeymoon period has been significantly shorter than previous in-coming Governments'... The package of..increased charges announced by the Chancellor on October 27 was the chief single cause of a rapid deterioration in the Government's popularity.
1881E. W. Hamilton Diary 26 Dec. (1972) I. 205 Lord Lyons says that Gambetta has got very well through his first short (honeymoon) session, and has displayed great vigour and tact as a parliamentary leader.
1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) ix. 80 The cafe still served as a sort of no-man's-land between the respectable workaday world..and the sinful..brothels... Jenny's served the same purpose as the shower stall does in a honeymoon suite. 1967C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah viii. 163 Bernhardt enjoyed Chicago. Her quarters at the Palmer House roused in her continual..mirth, for she occupied the ‘honeymoon suite’. 1968B. Norman Hounds of Sparta xxvii. 183 ‘The honeymoon suite, for God's sake.’.. ‘I knew nothing about that, believe me.’
1865Trollope Belton Est. xxxii. 391 After their honeymoon trip.
1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. vii. 134 It was a dreary departure for a honeymoon tour.
Hence (nonce-wds., chiefly humorous) ˈhoney-ˈmoonish a.; ˈhoney-ˈmoonlight, -ˈmoonshine; ˈhoney-ˈmoon-struck a.
1741H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1833) I. vii. 21 Quite bridal together, quite honey-moonish. 1869F. Locker-Lampson in Ld. Tennyson Tennyson (1897) II. iii. 76 Lovers..steeped in honeymoonshine. 1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1884) 8 There was not a suspicion of honey-moonshine about us. Ibid. 197, I wanted to know..whether you seemed honey-moon-struck. 1888Chicago Advance 16 May 371 The effects..are ascribed..to the peculiar refractive power of honey-moonlight.
▪ II. ˈhoneyˌmoon, v.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To spend the honeymoon.
1821Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 135 How did I know but you were tourifying or honeymooning? 1828J. Jekyll Corr. 15 Dec. (1894) 190 The Speaker and his bride..are honeymooning at Hastings. 1891Mrs. Clifford Love Lett. Worldly Wom. 244 Some one offered us a country seat to honeymoon in, but we declined.
Hence ˈhoneyˌmooner; ˈhoneyˌmooning vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1845W. G. S. Cavendish Handbk. Chatsworth & Hardwick 196 Other honeymooners here [sc. at Hardwick]. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xlvii, As soon as I can get his discharge, and he has done honeymooning, we shall start. 1873Daily News 25 Aug., Some miserable honeymooner..glad to get a reasonable being to talk to. 1873M. Collins Miranda III. 227 A honeymooning couple. 1968Punch 18 Sept. 398/1 Hawker-Siddeley have dramatised for us the folly of paying a man {pstlg}15,000 a year to sit around in an airport lounge with a lot of delayed honeymooners. |