sweeting
noun
a sweet variety of apple.
sweetings
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pluralof sweeting.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Stewart Edward White
Let’s go get some of those summer sweetings.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
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
