sweete
English
Adjective
sweete
- Obsolete spelling of sweet
Noun
sweete (plural sweetes)
- Obsolete spelling of sweet
Anagrams
- etwees, tweese
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English swēte.
Adjective
sweete
- Alternative form of swete
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
- Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
- Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 5-6.
Descendants
- Scots: sweet
- English: sweet