sweetheart (swethart)

[ sweeties (swe'tiz), n. pl. [Dim. of sweets.] Confections; candies; sweets. [Colloq., Great Britain.] Sweeties to bestow on la es. Ramsay , Poems, II. 547. (Jamie son.) Instead of finding bonbons or sweeties in the packets which we pluck off the boughs, we find enclosed Mr. Carnifex's review of the quarter's meat. Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, x. ( Davies .) sweeting (swē'ting), n. [ sweting , swetyng; sweet + -ing3 .] 1. A sweet apple. Swetyng , an apple, pom me doulce. 2. A term of endearment. Palsgrave . "Nai sertes, sweting," he seide, "that schal i neuer." William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), L. 916. Trip no further, pretty sweeting. Shak ., T. N., ii. 3. 43.