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

Well, sweeting, what Austin said was this: he hath made all search in every prison he hath visited, and spake unto divers prisoners, but no word of the dear lad may he have.

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

But I will go and see the sweeting, so soon as I may.”

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt

The pound sweeting, the spitzenberg, and many sister apples were there; and I stayed long enough to see them ripen into perfection.

From Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Beulah Strong

Well, sweeting, it was the softest of all the chidings that we hear Him to have laid on His disciples,—‘O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?’

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada 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

"I suppose those pound sweetings that used to be in that farthest bin were eaten up months ago?"

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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

Let’s go get some of those summer sweetings.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

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