1. A special loved one
   "The elderly couple still called each other 'honeybun' after fifty years of marriage";
   - darling, favorite [US], favourite [Brit, Cdn], pet, dearie [Brit, informal], deary [informal], ducky [informal], jo [UK, archaic, dialect], acushla [Ireland], honeybunch [informal], duckie [informal]

1. Rolled dough spread with sugar and nuts then sliced and baked in muffin tins with honey or sugar and butter in the bottom
   "The aroma of freshly baked honey buns filled the kitchen";
   - sticky bun, caramel bun, schnecken

Derived forms: honey buns, honeybuns

Type of: coffee roll, lover, sweet roll

Encyclopedia: Honeybun