honey dippers

Grooved nectar wands

Honey dippers are long-handled spoons with grooved, bulbous ends designed to collect and drizzle honey without dripping.

The grooves hold honey in place until you twirl the dipper over your toast or tea.

In older American slang, a honey dipper was someone who emptied outhouses and cesspools—the "honey" being sewage, in darkly euphemistic fashion.

septic

pumper

Truck carrying water hoses

sludge · effluent · blackwater · greywater · leach field · drain field · biosolids · wastewater · night soil · outhouse

tool

drizzler

Utensil for thin pouring

viscosity · drizzling · nectar · sweetener · beeswax · serving · kitchen utensil · stirring · dispensing · maple syrup

Categories
Opposites
utensil function

honey dippersspoons

Shallow bowl utensils

forks · knives · slotted spoons · strainers · skimmers

occupational prestige/cleanliness

honey dippersperfumers

Fragrance composition specialists

florists · chocolatiers · sommeliers · white-collar workers · aromatherapists

Family

honey, dipper, honeyed, honeys, dippers, dipped, dipping, dips

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G