To coat, cover, or treat with honey; to make something sweet like honey.
From 'be-' prefix plus 'honey,' following the productive pattern of Middle English verbs that add 'be-' to nouns to create verbs meaning to cover or treat with that substance (like 'bedew' or 'befriend').
This word is so rare that it barely appears in modern texts, but it reveals how English speakers could creatively build new words by adding 'be-' to almost anything—a linguistic superpower we've mostly lost.
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