sweetie

[ swee-tee ]
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noun
  1. Informal. sweetheart.

  2. Usually sweeties. British. candy; sweets.

Origin of sweetie

1
First recorded in 1695–1705; sweet + -ie

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How to use sweetie in a sentence

  • Kate, sweetie, you really need to get some hem weights fitted to your clothes.

  • Say sweetie, take it or leave it, but I had honest clean forgot all about that wine which we had been sent for in the first place.

    Believe You Me! | Nina Wilcox Putnam
  • Very likely I may have to fleech and cozen with you like a sweetie-wife at a fair before either of you will marry me.

    The Black Douglas | S. R. Crockett
  • She suspected him of fishing for a sweetie, and, out of sheer contrariety, she flung him a bit of crust.

    The Brentons | Anna Chapin Ray
  • But this little one with her head on my chest is such a sweetie!

    The Cozy Lion | Frances Hodgson Burnett

British Dictionary definitions for sweetie

sweetie

/ (ˈswiːtɪ) /


nouninformal
  1. sweetheart; darling: used as a term of endearment

  2. British another word for sweet (def. 20)

  1. mainly British an endearing person

  2. a large seedless variety of grapefruit which has a green to yellow rind and juicy sweet pulp

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