"honey trap" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-honey trap.ogg Forms: honey traps [plural]
Etymology: Popularised by John le Carré in the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). Head templates: {{en-noun}} honey trap (plural honey traps)
  1. (idiomatic) The use of a romantic or a sexual relationship to entice a person into revealing secret information. Tags: idiomatic Translations (use of a romantic or a sexual relationship): فَخّ الْعَسَل (faḵḵ al-ʕasal) [masculine] (Arabic), 美人計 (Chinese Mandarin), 美人计 (měirénjì) (Chinese Mandarin), piège de miel [feminine] (French), Honigfalle [feminine] (German), ハニートラップ (hanī torappu) (Japanese), 미인계 (miin'gye) (alt: 美人計) (Korean), miodowa pułapka [feminine] (Polish), медо́вая лову́шка (medóvaja lovúška) [feminine] (Russian), ме̏дена за̑мка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mȅdena zȃmka [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), honungsfälla [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-honey_trap-en-noun-X7XnRYzy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: honeytrap, honey-trap

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-honey trap.ogg Forms: honey traps [present, singular, third-person], honey trapping [participle, present], honey trapped [participle, past], honey trapped [past]
Etymology: Popularised by John le Carré in the novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974). Head templates: {{en-verb|honey trap<,,,>}} honey trap (third-person singular simple present honey traps, present participle honey trapping, simple past and past participle honey trapped)
  1. (transitive) To entice a person into a compromising situation (such as revealing secret information) by means of a romantic or sexual relationship. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Espionage, Sex Derived forms: honey trapper Related terms: honeyfuggle, honeypot, thirst trap, you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
    Sense id: en-honey_trap-en-verb-YksZgc0C Disambiguation of Espionage: 26 74 Disambiguation of Sex: 16 84 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 86 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 92 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 12 88 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 13 87 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 14 86 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 7 93 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 26 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 12 88
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: honeytrap, honey-trap

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.