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honeybag en · NOUN

Etymology

From honey + bag.

Meanings

1. A pouch in a honey bee where it stores honey for later regurgitation and storage; a bee's crop.
   • good monsieur, get your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good monsieur, bring me the honey-bag c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

Forms

Synonyms

honey sack · crop · honey stomach · honey sac