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