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Sweeting

Sweeting \Sweet"ing\, n.

  1. A sweet apple.
    --Ascham.

  2. A darling; -- a word of endearment.
    --Shak.

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sweeting

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A sweet apple. 2 (context obsolete English) A darling; term of endearment.

Wikipedia
Sweeting

Sweeting is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Charles W. Sweeting (1854–1937), American politician
  • Marjorie Sweeting (1920–1994), British geomorphologist
  • Robert Sweeting (cyclist), American cyclist born 1987
  • Robert Sweeting (politician), Bahamian politician
  • Ryan Sweeting (born 1987), Bahamian tennis player

Usage examples of "sweeting".

I have interviewed a Major Blair, who served in the SAS with Bellhanger, and Lance Corporal Sweeting, who now lives in Italy.

Actually, it came wrapped in the same packing I used when I first brokered it to the original owner, Charlie Sweeting, two years ago.

Two years ago, when I first brokered it to Sweeting, it sold for one and a quarter.

Friedrich had indeed been faked after Sweeting had sold it to Honeycutt.

Bracing short sturdy forelegs against the control panel, Sweeting peered at the sections of seascape and sky in the viewscreens, looked over at Nile.

Sweeting made a stroking motion with her forelegs, flipped hind feet up briefly.

Jaunty had said it, and Lester Maddocks, and now Signor Andreini disowning all responsibility for the actions of Lance Corporal Sweeting -was taking up the all too familiar melody.

Sweeting used nostrils in air, sensitive olfactories in the lining of her mouth in water.

There weren’t many in the dining hall: Piemur had been right that they got scanty rations on a gather day, but the cheese, bread and sweetings were all Menolly could eat.

There weren't many in the dining hall: Piemur had been right that they got scanty rations on a gather day, but the cheese, bread and sweetings were all Menolly could eat.

Piemur had been right that they got scanty rations on a gather day, but the cheese, bread and sweetings were all Menolly could eat.

They were to stay about a hundred feet away, one of the wild pair on either side, Sweeting taking the point, to provide early warning of approaching danger.