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sweet thing

/ˈswit ˌθɪŋ/

sweet thing noun: a term of endearment, especially for a young woman or child.

Noun

sweet thing

  1. (colloquial) A term of endearment, especially for a young woman or child.
    • “Hey, sweet thing. Did that catch impress you?”
      “You always impress me, Frankie. What's Garth doing at quarterback?” Jilly asked.1993 October, Barbara Steiner, chapter 9, in The Phantom, Scholastic Books, page 77
    • “Here you go, sweet thing.”
      Megan snatched the bottle Danielle offered, sucked greedily, gazing up with great goggle eyes. Danielle; smoothed a lick of blond fuzz at the apex of the baby's; silky forehead, murmured soft, sleepy-time words that flowed so naturally, an onlooker would never believe...1998, Diana Whitney, chapter 5, in Baby on His Doorstep, Silhouette Books, page 96
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sweet, thing.

sweet thing meaning in Nepali

sweet thing in Nepali

sweet thing
गुलियो guliyo

Synonyms of sweet thing

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Questions about sweet thing

What does sweet thing mean?
Sweet thing means a term of endearment, especially for a young woman or child.
What is sweet thing in Nepali?
Sweet thing in Nepali is गुलियो (guliyo). See Sweet thing meaning in Nepali.
What part of speech is sweet thing?
Sweet thing is a noun.
How do you pronounce sweet thing?
Sweet thing is pronounced /ˈswit ˌθɪŋ/.

Words near sweet thing in the dictionary

  1. sweet talk
  2. sweet talker
  3. sweet talkers
  4. sweet tea
  5. sweet teas
  6. sweet thing
  7. sweet thirteen
  8. sweet thirteens
  9. sweet thorn
  10. sweet thorns
  11. sweet tooth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweet thing (page history and authors); गुलियो (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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