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sweety

sweety is the alternative spelling of sweetie.

Meaning of sweetie

Noun

sweetie (plural sweeties)

  1. (often, term-of-address) A person who is much loved.
    • "But... Do you feel better now?" "Much better, sweetie, thank you. Now I get to be a girl everyday."^([sic])2022 April 8, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1493 - Everyday
  2. A sweetheart.
  3. A fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel.
    Synonyms:
    oroblanco
  4. (UK, childish) A sweet; a candy.
    • Can I have a box of sweeties for being a good boy?

Forms of sweety

pluralsweeties

Origin of sweety

From sweet + -y (diminutive suffix).

Questions about sweety

What is sweety the alternative spelling of?
Sweety is the alternative spelling of sweetie.

Words near sweety in the dictionary

  1. Sweetwine
  2. sweetwood
  3. sweetwoods
  4. sweetwort
  5. sweetworts
  6. sweety
  7. Sweezy
  8. Sweezys
  9. Sweigart
  10. Sweigarts
  11. sweight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sweety (page history and authors); sweetie (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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