sweeting
Americannoun
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a variety of sweet apple
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an archaic word for sweetheart
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sweeting
First recorded in 1250–1300, and in 1520–40 sweeting for def. 1; from Middle English sweting, suetyng; see origin at sweet, -ing 3
Example Sentences
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Trip no further, pretty sweeting; journeys end in lovers meeting...
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
"Hush thee now, sweeting, hush thee now," she was saying, and she patted her hand.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
If I wasn't a Stoutenburgh sweeting, Phil Davids, I'd teach you to talk of him so!
From Say and Seal, Volume I by Susan Warner
Speak, sweeting, since I love thee best of late, And have forsook my virginals for thee.
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
Hush thee, now, sweeting; 'twill go well with her, I doubt not; I swear to thee her father be no longer angry with the wench; 'twill all go well with her, and well.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
Early in the season were the soft yellow sweetings; then the streaked red and green "Northern Spies"; and last of all the snow-apples with their contrast of deep crimson outside and white flesh within.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
But come, my sweetings, ’tis time I got your supper.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
I was ill all night after the surfeit, but I bore the sweetings no grudge for my misplaced confidence in the human stomach.
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
Let’s go get some of those summer sweetings.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
Nay, come in, then, sweetings both; come in and sit ye 62down: little Willie has been in the garden long enough, though you know I grudge you not the flowers, wench.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
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