What is "honey dipper"

n. 1 A turned kitchen tool used to transfer honey. 2 (context chiefly US English) A worker who collects household sewage from sewage tanks.

The mascot of Honey Nut Cheerios, "BuzzBee", has carried various incarnations of honey dippers. Sources that show a honey dipper has been carried by the Honey Nut Cheerios mascot:

• Winnie-the-Pooh toys by Mattel have featured a honey dipper alongside the bear.

Since the 1920s in the United States "honey dipper" has been used as a term of disparagement for those that empty septic tanks, clean latrines, or do similar work. Sources for the alternative slang meaning of "honey dipper":