sweeting
See also: Sweeting
English
Etymology
sweet + -ing
Noun
sweeting (plural sweetings)
- (obsolete) A sweet apple.
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, Margaret Ascham, editor, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, OCLC 228713506:
- 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 […]
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- (obsolete) A darling; term of endearment.
- c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
- Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
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Verb
sweeting
- present participle of sweet
Anagrams
- weesting