AAVE slang for an attractive woman — specifically one with a warm, smooth appeal that the honey metaphor captures perfectly.
AAVE slang for an attractive woman — specifically one with a warm, smooth appeal that the honey metaphor captures perfectly. Sweet, desirable, effortlessly appealing. In some usages it refers particularly to a light-skinned Black woman, reflecting colorism-inflected language within AAVE. The term shows up in hip-hop lyrics and urban vernacular from the 1990s onward, used to compliment someone's appearance with that smooth, flowing energy the phrase carries.
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The whole track was dedicated to the honey dip he kept seeing at the coffee shop every morning.
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(AAVE) A light-skinned black woman.
“Everyday I mourn the loss of a walkable Tim Hortons, but all I can think about right now is that damn temporary timbt flavour they've got right now and I just want a box of fifty of them. ...and some honey dip timbits because I'm a slut for those.”
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(AAVE) An attractive woman.
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