honeybag

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English

Etymology

From honey +‎ bag.

Noun

honeybag (plural honeybags)

  1. A pouch in a honey bee where it stores honey.
    Synonyms: crop, honey stomach, honey sack, honey sac
    • 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      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

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