sweeting

American  

[swee-ting] / ˈswi tɪŋ /

noun

• sweetings
  plural

1. a sweet variety of apple.

2. Archaic. sweetheart.

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sweeting British  

/ ˈswiːtɪŋ /

noun

1. a variety of sweet apple

2. an archaic word for sweetheart

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• sweetings
  plural

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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

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Example Sentences

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sweeting sweetings

Trip no further, pretty sweeting; journeys end in lovers meeting...

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson

There on the shelf were the cedar piggins, scoured clean with white sand from the creek, one for spice, one for rendering, one for sweeting.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

"Rest you still now, then, sweeting," the old dame said.

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

My little pretty sweeting, My sweeting will I love wherever I go: She is so proper and pure, Full steadfast, stable, and demure, There is none such, you may be sure, As my sweet sweeting.

From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe

When I presented myself to the group awaiting me under the big sweeting, a low, but fervent, groan of admiration broke forth as from one breast.

From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland

Golden Porters, crystalline and winy, were to be had in their brief season; and succulent sweetings, to bake with molasses; and gilliflowers, purple and mealy, and little scarlet sapsons, of which one eats without counting.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was Elijah, and my attendants were the ravens who plied me with sweetings in all stages of development until I could not have swallowed another to save the combined kingdoms of Judah and Israel.

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

I cannot choose but think never were two such sweetings as Aubrey and his cousin Lettice Murthwaite.

From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

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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