What's the difference between hokey and honey?

Hokey


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EU hokey-cokey: in, out, shake it all about (not necessarily in that order) | Letter Read more “It is interesting that both sides want to adopt Boris,” one Johnson ally said.
  • (2) Justice League is supposedly due in just two years' time, and we still don't have the standalone Wonder Woman movie required to bring that rather hokey old character into the burgeoning "darker" Nolanesque take on the DC universe.
  • (3) Last May’s bizarre resignation hokey cokey – was he out or was he in?
  • (4) Would MPs from Scotland be brought back in what a Scottish Labour MP George Foulkes called a kind of 'legislative hokey-cokey', to vote just on these particular clauses?
  • (5) Nick Clegg is adopting what we might call the hokey-cokey position.
  • (6) Two years prior to this, Kearney condemned the, er… hokey cokey .
  • (7) I don’t mean nice in the “Aw shucks, little ol’ me?” hokey Tom Hanks kind of nice .
  • (8) Rise began a little hokey, and no one is going to accuse Freida Pinto of giving a good performance, but take state-of-the-art motion capturing, ambiguous moral culpability, a few bananas and you have a thrilling action film.
  • (9) Admittedly a little hokey, as films about the Irish by the English tend to be, it categorically did not deserve the backlash it received: 'The art it represents belongs to that school of very classy calendar art supported by airlines, insurance corporations and a few enlightened barber shops.
  • (10) But as a Cambridge University study has shown, the process is likely to prove little more than a game of Euro hokey cokey, with the risk that Britain ends up compromising its ability to police international crimes such as terrorism and drug trafficking.
  • (11) 9.51pm BST 90+2 min: … after the ball hokey-cokeys in and out of the box, it eventually drops to Sergio Ramos who can't make a clean connection from eight yards out.
  • (12) He delivers a homespun message of hard work and self-reliance, of dreaming big and being able to look in the mirror each night and be proud of yourself which verges on the hokey, but the rapt attention of his audience makes it hard to be cynical.
  • (13) That Easton crossover, from local girl made good, through the agency of hokey telly and novelty-song pop charts, to global star, riding high in the Billboard charts, the chosen workmate of this extraordinary creature, Prince?
  • (14) Game stories are often pretty hokey, but they're compelling because we're in control.
  • (15) Photograph: SA Mathieson The last event is held alongside Rhymetime, whose infant participants fill the library with Hokey Cokey.
  • (16) and hapless cod romance, interspersed with hokey landmine photo-ops and scenic cultural detours through Lahore".
  • (17) The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, branded Robinson’s move as “hokey-cokey” politics with one leg in the devolved government and one leg out.
  • (18) I know it sounds a bit hokey, but we’re closer to nature.
  • (19) Ed Miliband mocked the prime minister for a "weekend Hokey Cokey".
  • (20) Given the way Warner allowed Entourage to lampoon the king of Atlantis a few years back, you might think the studio would be loth to include that slightly hokey old character in the more realistic universe it launched with last year's Man of Steel.

Honey


Definition:

  • (n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
  • (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
  • (n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
  • (v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
  • (v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
  • (2) The elution curves of the individual honeys were very similar.
  • (3) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
  • (4) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
  • (5) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
  • (6) The Refugee Council expressed “grave concerns” as the Home Office minister James Brokenshire defended plans to remove automatic benefits from families who did not win asylum as a way of signalling that the UK was not “a land of milk and honey”.
  • (7) Domestic and imported honey samples (115) contained 2.00% maltose and 0.71% isomaltose.
  • (8) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
  • (9) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
  • (10) Unilateral microinjections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (ACh) and related substances into central parts of the brain of the honey bee elicit a quantifiable circling behavior.
  • (11) At present, the sweetening carbohydrates have a share of about 49% of the total-carbohydrate-consumption, from which 24% is sugar in its conventional form; a further 3% comes from fruits and vegetables; 5% of the carbohydrates are lactose, 15.5% are monosaccharides, from which 12% are derived from vegetable foodstuffs and honey.
  • (12) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
  • (13) The British foreign secretary flatly admits that it was Jolie's film, Land of Blood and Honey , that inspired his commitment to the cause.
  • (14) These monoclonal antibodies were more suitable than polyclonal rabbit anti-human IgG antibody in Phadebas RAST for honey bee venom-specific IgG antibody.
  • (15) A publisher has claimed that Apple has removed Salwa Al Neimi's erotic novel The Proof of the Honey from the iTunes store because its cover – which features part of a woman's naked back and bottom – is "inappropriate".
  • (16) while hydrated colocynithin was more toxic to housefly than honey bee, cotton leafworm was less affected with both toxicants.
  • (17) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
  • (18) It is concluded that: 1) honey and bread produce similar degrees of hyperglycemia in type II diabetics.
  • (19) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
  • (20) In addition, the procedure detects the presence in honey of all starch-derived sugar sirups tested thus far, regardless of the plant source.

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