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Sweeting   Listen
noun
Sweeting  n.  
1.
A sweet apple.
2.
A darling; a word of endearment.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Sweeting" Quotes from Famous Books



... other day in Cheapside I saw some turtles in Mr. Sweeting's window, and was tempted to stay and look at them. As I did so I was struck not more by the defences with which they were hedged about, than by the fatuousness of trying to hedge that in at all which, if hedged ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler
... was a blaze of lights. At the head of the old oak staircase (a magnificent example of the Selfridge period) the Lady Beltravers stood receiving her guests. Magnificently gowned in one of Sweeting's latest creations, and wearing round her neck the famous Beltravers seed-pearls, she looked the picture of stately magnificence. As each guest was announced by a bevy of footmen, she extended her perfectly gloved hand and spoke a ...
— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne
... mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son ...
— Twelfth Night; or, What You Will • William Shakespeare [Hudson edition]
... afternoon when the great orchards about the Grange were pink and white with apple and cherry blossoms, and over every hill and field was a delicate, flower-starred green. A soft breeze was blowing loose petals from the August Sweeting through the open door of the wide hall when Charlotte came through it. Ellen and George were ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... are you roaming? O, stay and hear! your true-love's coming That can sing both high and low; Trip no further, pretty sweeting, Journeys end in lovers' meeting— Every wise ...
— The Golden Treasury - Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language • Various


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