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

In all this wealth of women fair, Maid of beauty to compare With my sweeting found I ne'er All the country over!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

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 Corra Harris

“No, sweeting, neither to tell God,” answered Isoult.

From Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

Ah, foolish sweeting, wherefore quail, For thou hast naught to fear?”

From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence

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

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

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

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

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

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