honeypotn.
/ˈhʌnɪpɒt/, U.S. /ˈhəniˌpɑt/ 1.
a. A pot in which honey is kept.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > honey container
honeypot?c1475
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 66 A hwny pott [1483 BL Add. 89074 an Huny pot] or vessell, mellarium.
1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth i. xxviii. 67 The Emotes will not creepe to that hony pot set on the ground, about which the like circles with Chalke or red Okare shall be fourmed.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B 2v The Martin-mongers swarmd to a lecture, like beares to a honnie pot.
1648 J. Vicars Coleman-st. Conclave Visited 28 I found him strongly begin to struggle (like a Wasp or Hornet over-whelmed in a honey-pot).
a1679 J. Moore Englands Interest (1703) 137 First provide necessary Instruments, as..Honey-Pots, Wax-Molds.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub 217 A Fly driven from a Honey-pot, will..finish his Meal on an Excrement.
1729 C. Johnson Village Opera ii. ii. 32 Don't you know that a Honey-pot draws all the Wasps in the Garden after it?
1834 H. Martineau Land's End i. 13 Miss Julia had..got to the honeypot, and appropriated more than she intended.
1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xxii. 321 The jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honey-pot.
1939 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 25 Mar. (Mag. section) 7/7 Make a syrup... Put into jars or honey pots.
1977 E. Vipont Little Bit of Ivory 35 The Lefroys attracted young people to their rectory like bees to a honeypot.
2003 Express (Nexis) 3 Apr. 39 It has hived off a large part of the productivity of the world's bees to fill up its honeypots.
b. A receptacle produced from wax or other substances by various bees, used by them to store honey.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > honey container > made by bees
honeypot1606
1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. I2 Some [bees] maken Honny-pots, some Honny clense, Which closely they hide, and hourden in their Dens.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 377 The honey-pots may be intended to supply honey for the occasional moistening of the paste in making repairs.
1861 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Apr. 85/1 Oken thinks that the paste of the honey-pots differs from that of the brood mass.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 153 A waxen receptacle or ‘honey-pot’ is also constructed and this she [sc. the queen] fills with honey that functions as a food reserve.
1978 Oikos 30 453/2 Bombus colonies are initiated by the queen's making and provisioning one or more honey pots.
2007 Jrnl. Kansas Entomol. Soc. 80 5 The nest contained 22 honey pots.
2.
a. A person who or thing which is very attractive, tempting, or a source of pleasure or reward; spec. an attractive young woman.In earlier use frequently as part of an extended metaphor.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive thing
attraction1607
attractive1615
honeypot1618
sale-piece1621
beauty spot1645
eye-catcher1787
good-looker1854
spectacular1874
eye-opener1907
the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive person > woman
morsela1450
honeypot1618
enchantera1704
peach1710
enchantress1713
sparkler1713
enslaver1728
witch1740
fascinatress1799
honey1843
biscuit1855
fairy1862
baby1863
scorcher1881
cracker1891
peacherino1896
hot tamale1897
mink1899
hotty?1913
babe1915
a bit of skirt1916
cookie1917
tomato1918
snuggle-pup1922
nifty1923
brahma1925
package1931
ginch1934
blonde bombshell1942
beast1946
smasher1948
a bit of crackling1949
nymphet1955
nymphette1961
fox1963
beaver1968
superbabe1970
brick house1977
nubile1977
yummy mummy1993
1618 G. Mynshul Ess. Prison 47 A Whore entring into a Prison is a Hony-pot about which all the flyes come buzzing, as Crowes to a Carrion.
1657 M. Lawrence Use & Pract. Faith 83 Like..venomous Wasps, they are drowned in the very Honey-pot of worldly pleasures.
1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. v. i. 47 I am not sweet;..nor am, nor ever was, a Hony Pot.
1832 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 11 Feb. 388./2 His consistency stood in the way of their getting at the honey-pot.
1892 F. Marryat How like Woman xvii. 149 ‘More than one fly buzzing round the little honey-pot,’ said Craig-Morris... ‘And so you can't make up your mind, Kitty?’
1910 M. Moore Let. 6 July (1997) 79 I think I shall like the work and the place is a honey pot.
1972 Guardian 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.
2006 Independent 19 Aug. (Traveller section) 6/1 Beach huts were buzzing with..revellers of all descriptions from the short-skirted honeypots to grotesque chavs.
b. Chiefly British. A place or attraction that draws a large number of tourists; a tourist trap. Frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > holiday-making or tourism > [noun] > place where tourists are exploited
tourist trap1939
honeypot1967
1967 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 12 Feb. ii. 14/2 The Viennese bait their tourist-attracting honeypot with their great musicians.
1973 Times 29 May 14/5 Concentrating facilities at centres of attraction, so-called ‘honeypot’ areas, and discouraging motorists from heading towards ‘quiet’ areas.
1980 M. Shoard Theft of Countryside ii. xviii. 197 Dower..proposed that visitors be concentrated into what have now become known as ‘honeypots’, so leaving the mountains and moors for the wilderness seeker.
1997 P. Mandler Fall & Rise of Stately Home i. ii. 75 Tourist attention, which had formerly been focused on a few ‘honey-pot’ areas, for example the Wye Valley, the Lake District, Norfolk and portions of Wales and Scotland, now had a more genuinely national purview.
2003 G. Macdonald England ix. 236 There are one or two honey-pot attractions in the New Forest.
c. Computing. A decoy, typically in the form of a website, intended to attract attacks from spammers, hackers, etc., in order to thwart or gather information about them.
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1994 W. R. Cheswick & S. M. Bellovin Firewalls & Internet Security vii. 133 Sometimes entire machines or even networks may be set up as honey pots to detect browsers.
1999 Wall Street Jrnl. (Nexis) 31 Dec. b4/1 The ‘honey pot’ is one of Silicon Valley's latest technologies for trapping computer hackers.
2004 Network World (Electronic ed.) 23 Feb. 79 A high-interaction honeypot used not only to detect or deceive bad guys, but also to gain additional information about them.
2009 T. M. Chen & P. J. Walsh in J. R. Vacca Computer & Information Security Handbk. i. iv. 63/1 Since honeypots are intended to attract attacks, there is a real risk that the honeypot could be compromised and used as a launching pad to attack more hosts in the network.
3. slang (frequently euphemistic). The female genitals. Now chiefly U.S.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]
cuntc1230
quivera1382
chosec1386
privy chosea1387
quoniamc1405
naturec1470
shell1497
box1541
water gate1541
mouth1568
quiver case1568
water gap1586
cunnya1593
medlar1597
mark1598
buggle-boo1600
malkin1602
lap1607
skin coat1611
quim1613
nest1614
watermilla1626
bum1655
merkin1656
twat1656
notch1659
commodity1660
modicum1660
crinkum-crankum1670
honeypot1673
honour1688
muff1699
pussy1699
puss1707
fud1771
jock1790
cock?1833
fanny?1835
vaginac1890
rug1893
money-maker1896
Berkeley1899
Berkeley Hunt1899
twitchet1899
mingea1903
snatch1904
beaver1927
coozie1934
Sir Berkeley1937
pocketbook1942
pranny1949
zatch1950
cooch1955
bearded clam1962
noonie1966
chuff1967
coozea1968
carpet1981
pum-pum1983
front bum1985
coochie1986
punani1987
front bottom1991
va-jay-jay2000
1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen 99 Desiring by all means to gain his will on the Wench, and to have a lick at her Honey-pot.
1684 G. R. tr. Eve Revived 58 They bethought 'emselves of mounting upon Stools, lift up their Smocks and expose one after the other my Ladies Honey-pot.
1704 A. F. Trav. Eng. Gentleman (ed. 2) 120 Padlock up his Wives Honey-Pot from the Invasions of the Sweet Tooth'd Clergy.
1733 Mock-marriage (ed. 2) 4 Each hop'd that his Lot, it wou'd be to be Master of her Honey-Pot, But she wou'd not consent without tying the Knot.
1896 J. S. Farmer Vocab. Amatoria (1966) 262 Vase, the female pudendum; ‘the honey-pot’.
c1900 Confessions Lady Beatrice vi. 44 The curls of her slit, her loveslot, her honeypot, were framed by the white linen.
1958 T. Southern & M. Hoffenberg Candy vii. 75 The milk-white V the panties made, concealing her honeypot.
1991 D. Richler Kicking Tomorrow xv. 263 Soon he's back in his bed with the fan,..one finger up her honeypot, another in her asshole.
2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass lvi. 383 ‘Don't let one bite your honey pot’. His laughter is crude.
4.
a. In plural. A children's game in which a number of players sit or squat with their hands gripping the backs of their thighs, while two other players select one to ‘buy’; that player is then lifted up by the armpits and shaken or swung, in an attempt to make him or her let go his or her grip. Also in singular: one of the seated or squatting players in this game; also in extended use, with reference to the posture. Now historical and rare.Also (Scottish) called honey-pigs.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > others
buckle-pit1532
marrowbone1533
put-pin?1577
primus secundus1584
fox in the hole1585
haltering of Hick's mare1585
muss1591
pushpin1598
Jack-in-the-box1600
a penny in the forehead1602
buckerels1649
bumdockdousse1653
peck-point1653
toro1660
wheelbarrow1740
thread-needle1751
thrush-a-thrush1766
runaway ring?1790
Gregory1801
pick-point1801
fighting cocks1807
runaway knock1813
tit-tat-toe1818
French and English1820
honeypots1821
roly-poly1821
tickle-tail1821
pottle1822
King of Cantland1825
tip-top-castle1834
tile1837
statue1839
chip stone1843
hen and chickens1843
king of the castle1843
King Caesar1849
rap-jacket1870
old witch1881
tick-tack-toe1884
twos and threes1896
last across (the road)1904
step1909
king of the hill1928
Pooh-sticks1928
trick or treat1928
stare-you-out1932
king of the mountain1933
dab cricket1938
Urkey1938
trick-or-treating1941
seven-up1950
squashed tomato1959
slot-racing1965
Pog1993
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action of crouching or squatting > [noun] > crouching or squatting posture
honeypots1860
squat1886
1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 10 36/2 Common games..as the Skipping-rope, and Honey-pots.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters iii. 50 A game at marbles, or honey-pots.
1860 Lady Canning in A. J. C. Hare Story Two Noble Lives (1893) III. 110 It was an easy pass..I could not resist a ‘honey-pot’ descent.
1876 G. C. Clark Jolly Games for Happy Homes 28 Buyer and Seller..ultimately take ‘the honey pot’ between them, grasping it by each arm, and swinging till the little clasped hands give way.
1886 Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 5/2 To squat low down on his haunches, like a political ‘honey-pot’.
1926 News (Frederick, Maryland) 15 May 4/5 Do you remember how we used to go round the mulberry bush, and then we played honey pots too.
1961 Folklore 72 593 It was the day, too, when girls and boys played Honey Pots.
b. Australian and New Zealand (originally Children's slang). A dive or plunge into water made by jumping then clasping one's hands round one's knees.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > diving into water > specific manner
belly flop1895
belly flopper1895
swallow dive1898
swallow-diving1898
swan dive1898
swallow1902
cannonball1905
jackknife1906
honeypot1941
belly-flopping1948
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > skin-diving > [noun] > specific dives
honeypot1941
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang (at cited word) Honeypot, a method of jumping into the water with the hands clasped round the knees. Children's slang.
1951 J. Frame Lagoon 16 She would dive backwards and do a honey-pot into the water.
1992 M. Leggott in Landfall (N.Z.) No. 183. 313 It's been..high dives and honeypots into these piscine deeps.
2011 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 11 I did a beautiful dive... There were a lot of people on the wharf so I couldn't do a big honey pot or anything.
5. More fully honeypot ant. Any of several ants of Myrmecocystus and other genera, found in North America, Australia, and South Africa, having some specialist workers with abdomens that become greatly distended with surplus (typically sugar-rich) food which is regurgitated when needed by other ants in the colony. Also: the individual worker ants which store food in this manner; also called replete.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > honey-ant
honey ant1854
honeypot1880
1880 Jrnl. Linn. Soc.: Zool. 15 185 Certain individuals in each nest serve as animated honey-pots.
1934 A. Russell Tramp-royal in Wild Austral. xxxviii. 253 The honey-pot stores the honey in its abdomen.
1968 P. P. Larson & M. W. Larson Lives of Social Insects xxi. 157 (caption) Honeypot ants represent an adaptation of some ant species to dry and inhospitable environments.
2009 Independent 19 Mar. (Life section) 17/5 Thrifty humans might revive the Mexican habit of biting off the honeypot ant's abdomen for sweet nourishment.
6. U.S. slang (frequently Military). A pot or other receptacle used as a (makeshift) toilet. Cf. honey n. 8.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > chamber-pot, etc.
jordan1402
pissing vessel1440
pisspot1440
urinalc1475
pissing basin1481
piss bowlc1527
chamber vessel?1529
chamber pot1540
pot1568
jordan-pot1577
night-tub1616
looking-glassa1627
water-pot1629
chamber utensil1699
member-mug1699
utensil1699
pot de chambre1777
chanty1788
pig1810
piss bucket1819
chamber1829
jerry1859
po1880
thunder-mug1890
article1922
potty1937
honeypotc1947
totty-pot1966
piss-tin1974
c1947 T. Shibutani Derelicts of Company K (1978) viii. 387 Honey pot? Holy smokes! I thought he just fell in the water. Jesus Christ! That's really the shits! Them things really stink! That's worse than fallin' in the fuckin' GI shithouse.
1968 W. J. Lederer & D. D. Jackson Mirage of Marriage iii. xxxv. 251 In Chungking a respectable Chinese woman might, only a few yards from a highway, lift her skirts, squat over a ‘honey pot’, and defecate.
1995 E. Arthur Antarctic Navigation 295 If you're a female, and you're pissing and you miss the honey pot, too bad. You clean it up.
2012 E. Scannell-Desch & M. E. Doherty Nurses in War 205 On the back of a C-130 aircraft, the only bathroom you have is a honey pot, a bucket with a shower curtain in front of it for privacy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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