honing-wijzer, noun

Forms:
Also heuning-wyser, honing-wyzer.
Origin:
South African Dutch, DutchShow more South African Dutch, from Dutch honing, (dialect) heuning honey + wijzer guide.
obs.
honey-guide. Also (Englished pronunciation-spelling) hony vyzer.
1777 [see honey-guide].
1786 G. Forster tr. of A. Sparrman’s Voy. to Cape of G.H. II. 190I had previously promised an ample reward, consisting of glass beads and tobacco to my Zwellendam Hottentots, on condition that they would assist me in catching and shooting a honing-wijzer, yet I found them too much the bird’s friends to betray it...This bird..is called by the colonists honing-wyzer, or the honey-guide.
c1808 C. von Linné System of Nat. Hist. VIII. 236The small indicator is about six inches long...The colonists at the Cape..call it heuning-vogel, or heuning-wyser, ‘indicator of honey,’ which is a literal translation of the Hottentot name.
1883 M.A. Carey-Hobson Farm in Karoo 146Will master go too, if we can only get the ‘Hony Vyzer’ to show us again?
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 215Honingwijzer,..See Honey-bird.
honey-guide. Also (Englished pronunciation-spelling) hony vyzer.
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