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sweetpea

sweetpea is the alternative spelling of sweet pea.

Meaning of sweet pea

Noun

sweet pea (plural sweet peas)

  1. A flowering plant, Lathyrus odoratus, grown for its bright colours and sweet fragrance.
    • No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him...1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162
  2. (colloquial) A term of endearment for something sweet or lovely; a child or an intimate partner, for example.
    • He was a nice enough fellow, the boyfriendo. Sweet pea with Jo.2004, Janet Davey, “Saturday”, in First Aid, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, section 6

Forms of sweetpea

pluralsweetpeas

Origin of sweetpea

From sweet + pea.

Questions about sweetpea

What is sweetpea the alternative spelling of?
Sweetpea is the alternative spelling of sweet pea.

Words near sweetpea in the dictionary

  1. sweetness and light
  2. sweetnesse
  3. sweetnesses
  4. sweetnik
  5. sweetniks
  6. sweetpea
  7. sweetpeas
  8. sweetpotato
  9. sweetpotatoes
  10. sweetroot
  11. sweetroots

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