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HONEY-MOUTHED

Definition: HONEY-MOUTHED

HONEY-MOUTHED

Adjective

1. Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Synonyms within Context: HONEY-MOUTHED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Courtesy

Fine spoken, fair spoken, soft-spoken; honey-mouthed, honey-tongued; oily, bland; obliging, conciliatory, complaisant, complacent; obsequious.

Flattery

Adjective: flattering;Verb: adulatory; mealy-mouthed, honey-mouthed; honeyed; smooth, smooth-tongued; soapy, oily, unctuous,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: HONEY-MOUTHED

Language Translations for "HONEY-MOUTHED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lajkatar (adulatory, bootlicker, earthworm, flatterer, flunkey, flunky, lickspittle, obsequious, smooth tongued, soother, sycophant, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, wheedling). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сладкодумен (candied, eloquent, mellifluent, mellifluous, silver-tongued), ласкателен (adulatory, buttery, flattering, honeyed, oily, smooth, well oiled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mézesmázos beszédû. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oney-mouthedhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

plido (gray, grey), farinhento (farinose, floury, mealy), farinceo, coberto de farinha (mealy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cu vorbe dulci (honey-tongued), cu cuvinte mieroase. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сладкоречивый (silver-tongued), медоточивый (mellifluous), льстивый (adulatory, flattering, smarmy, sycophantic, wheedling). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ăn nói ngọt ngào như đường mật. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HONEY-MOUTHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-h-m-n-o-o-t-u-y"

-3 letters: youthened.

-4 letters: theonomy.

-5 letters: demeton, demount, duotone, eudemon, honeyed, moneyed, mooneye, mounted, mouthed, outdone, outmode, youthen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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