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ˈhoney-pot
1. a. A pot in which honey is stored. b. A receptacle, of wax or other substance, in which many species of wild bees store their honey. (Cent. Dict.)
1483Cath. Angl. 192/1 An Huny pot or hony wesselle, mellarium. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet B ij b, The Martin⁓mongers swarmd to a lecture, like beares to a honnie pot. 1694Dryden Love Triumph. iv. i, Mind to have a lick at the honey-pot yourself.
2. a. pl. A children's game. Also attrib. in reference to the posture.
One of the players, called a honey-pot, sits with his hands locked under his hams, while the ‘honey-merchants’ lift him by the arm-pits as handles, pretend to carry him to market, and shake him, with the aim of making him let go his hold. Also called in Scotland honey-pigs.
1821Blackw. Mag. X. 36/2 Common games..as the Skipping-rope, and Honey-pots. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 52 A game at marbles, or honey-pots, or hy⁓spy. 1860Lady Canning in Hare 2 Noble Lives (1893) III. 110 It was an easy pass..I could not resist a ‘honey-pot’ descent. 1886Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 5/2 To squat low down on his haunches, like a political ‘honey-pot’.
b. ? orig. Austral. Term applied to the action of jumping into a swimming-pool, etc., with one's hands clasped round one's drawn-up legs.
1941in Baker Dict. Austral. Slang. 1951J. Frame Lagoon 16 She would dive backwards and do a honey-pot into the water.
3. The female pudenda. slang.
1719T. D'Urfey Pills III. 342 For when you have possession got, Of Venus Mark, or Hony-pot. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 265 If a woman is food, her sex organ is for consumption also, in the form of honey-pot.
4. In full honey-pot ant. An ant belonging to one of several North American, Australian, or South African genera in which some of the workers become distended with surplus food, which is regurgitated when it is needed by the rest of the colony.
1880Jrnl. Linn. Soc. Zool. XV. 185 Certain individuals in each nest serve as animated honey-pots. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 291 (caption) A store-chamber of the honey-pot ant. 1934A. Russell Tramp-Royal in Wild Australia xxxviii. 253 Worker ants and honey-pot ants. Ibid., The honey-pot stores the honey in its abdomen. 1968P. P. & M. W. Larson Lives of Social Insects xxi. 157 Honeypots, or repletes..serve their nest mates simply as receptacles for the colony's extra food supplies. Ibid. (caption) Honeypot ants represent an adaptation of some ant species to dry and inhospitable environments. 1970Brown & Taylor in Insects of Australia (C.S.I.R.O.) xxxvii. 956/1 Some formicine ants in arid areas..store regurgitated honey-dew and nectar in the enormously distended crops of special large ‘honeypot’ workers.
5. Something very attractive or tempting, spec. an attractive girl or young woman, one who invites or attracts attention. Also attrib.
1929H. A. Vachell Virgin iii. 58 What a honeypot she was, whether in or out of breeches and boots. 1945A. L. Rowse West-Country Stories 4 His honey-pot young wife. 1972Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 11/2 This mother, who is a tart, decides to set the girl up as a photographer's model, and a great honey-pot she turns out to be for the local talent who come in droves to photograph her splendid features. 1972Guardian 15 Aug. 16/1 The hordes of eager students that descend on London..present too tempting a honey-pot for the smart operators to stay away from. 1973Times 29 May 14/5 Concentrating facilities at centres of attraction, so-called ‘honeypot’ areas, and discouraging motorists from heading towards ‘quiet’ areas. |