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English
Etymology
From sweet + -ing.
Noun
sweeting (plural sweetings)
- (obsolete) A sweet apple.
a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, , London: John Daye, , published 1570, →OCLC: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 […]
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 62:Thy wit is a very Bitter-ſweeting, / It is a moſt ſharpe ſawce.
- (obsolete) A darling; term of endearment.
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
Verb
sweeting
- present participle and gerund of sweet
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