"honey joys" meaning in All languages combined

See honey joys on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Etymology: Though it was apparently a prevalent snack in shops since the 1930s, its first definitive known mention was in a 1938 as a recipe in a newspaper. The origin of the name is unverifiable, as its creator is untraceable. Head templates: {{en-noun|p}} honey joys pl (plural only)
  1. (Australia) Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases. Tags: Australia, plural, plural-only
{
  "etymology_text": "Though it was apparently a prevalent snack in shops since the 1930s, its first definitive known mention was in a 1938 as a recipe in a newspaper. The origin of the name is unverifiable, as its creator is untraceable.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "honey joys pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles! I also have to bake a mermaid cake!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Fiona Palmer, Tiny White Lies:",
          "text": "And she also said she knows how to make honey joys. We haven't had them since my sixth birthday.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases."
      ],
      "id": "en-honey_joys-en-noun-gjP4iOt~",
      "links": [
        [
          "cornflake",
          "cornflake"
        ],
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ],
        [
          "sugar",
          "sugar"
        ],
        [
          "baking",
          "bake"
        ],
        [
          "patty case",
          "patty case"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "honey joys"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Though it was apparently a prevalent snack in shops since the 1930s, its first definitive known mention was in a 1938 as a recipe in a newspaper. The origin of the name is unverifiable, as its creator is untraceable.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "honey joys pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Jacqueline Pascarl, Abducted: The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, I'm catering for Verity's fifth birthday party on the same day at 2 p.m. – am up to my armpits tonight in honey joys and chocolate crackles! I also have to bake a mermaid cake!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Fiona Palmer, Tiny White Lies:",
          "text": "And she also said she knows how to make honey joys. We haven't had them since my sixth birthday.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cornflake",
          "cornflake"
        ],
        [
          "honey",
          "honey"
        ],
        [
          "butter",
          "butter"
        ],
        [
          "sugar",
          "sugar"
        ],
        [
          "baking",
          "bake"
        ],
        [
          "patty case",
          "patty case"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia) Party snacks made by mixing cornflakes with honey, butter and sugar and baking in patty cases."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "plural",
        "plural-only"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "honey joys"
}

Download raw JSONL data for honey joys meaning in All languages combined (1.6kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.