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
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
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 Caldwell, Erskine
But I will go and see the sweeting, so soon as I may.”
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah
Sister Salter was still in her baptismal mood and, as we rumbled on into the deepening twilight through the sweeting spring woods, she continued to sing snatches from the old hymns.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Harris, Corra
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 Harland, Marion
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 Harland, Marion
We would take our choice of the yellow sweetings, the hard white snow apples, or the little red-cheeked fellows from the west tree.
From The Claim Jumpers by White, Stewart Edward
But come, my sweetings, ’tis time I got your supper.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
Let’s go get some of those summer sweetings.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
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