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sweetings

sweetings is the plural of sweeting.

Meaning of sweeting

Noun

sweeting (plural sweetings)

  1. (obsolete) A sweet apple.
    • a childe will chose a sweeting, because it is presentlie faire and pleasant, and refuse a Runnet, because it is than grene, hard, and lowre[…]a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […]...
  2. (obsolete) A darling; term of endearment.
    • Trip no further, pretty sweeting.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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Proper noun capitalized: Sweetings

Sweetings

  1. (plural) plural of Sweeting

Questions about sweetings

What is sweetings the plural of?
Sweetings is the plural of sweeting.
What part of speech is sweetings?
Sweetings is a proper noun.

Words near sweetings in the dictionary

  1. sweetie-pie
  2. sweetie-pies
  3. sweeties
  4. Sweetin
  5. sweeting
  6. sweetings
  7. Sweetins
  8. sweetish
  9. sweetishly
  10. sweetishness
  11. sweetite

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