ˈhoney-drop
1. A drop of honey: sometimes taken as a type of what is sweet and delicious. Cf. honey-dew 2.
| 1600 Fairfax Tasso xv. xxxvi, The honeydrops from hollow oaks distill. 1610 Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 79. 1641 Trappe Theologia Theologiæ 359 The Promises are the hony-drops of Christs mouth. a 1711 Ken Preparat. Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 97 Jonathan from his pointed Spear Suck'd Honey-drops, and his Eyesight Grew quick and bright. 1852 James Agnes Sorel (1860) I. 116 To sweeten the cup of pain with the wild honey-drops of pleasure. |
2. A mole on the skin. Cf. honey-mark, -spot, s.v. honey n. 7.
| ? a 1800 Bondsey & Maisry v. in Child Ballads iv. lxxxvi. (1886) 283/1 Here she is, my sister Maisry, Wi' the hinny⁓draps on her chin. |