| 词汇 | honey |
| 词源 | honey. Several dictionaries of slang call honey, as a personal term of endearment for a lover, an Americanism originating in the 1880s. But among the Greek betrothal rings in the British Museum’s collection is a gold ring from the fourth century b.c. engraved inside with the Greek word meli, “honey.” |
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