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sweet young thing

sweet young thing noun: an attractive young woman.

Noun

sweet young thing (plural sweet young things)

  1. (idiomatic) An attractive young woman.
    • I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar.
  2. (idiomatic) A sweet-tempered young woman.
    • Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?1908, Henry James, chapter XVIII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 264

Forms of sweet young thing

pluralsweet young things

Questions about sweet young thing

What does sweet young thing mean?
Sweet young thing means an attractive young woman.
What part of speech is sweet young thing?
Sweet young thing is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet young thing?
The plural of sweet young thing is sweet young things.

Words near sweet young thing in the dictionary

  1. sweet williams
  2. sweet woodruff
  3. sweet wormwood
  4. sweet wormwoods
  5. sweet yarrow
  6. sweet young thing
  7. sweet young things
  8. Sweet's syndrome
  9. sweet-after-death
  10. sweet-amber
  11. sweet-and-sour

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