sweetie
Informal. sweetheart.
Usually sweeties. British. candy; sweets.
Origin of sweetie
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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.
New Wardrobe Malfunction Today Suggests Kate REALLY Needs Hem Weights | Tom Sykes | June 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTSay 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 PutnamVery 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. CrockettShe suspected him of fishing for a sweetie, and, out of sheer contrariety, she flung him a bit of crust.
The Brentons | Anna Chapin RayBut this little one with her head on my chest is such a sweetie!
The Cozy Lion | Frances Hodgson Burnett
He spoke so sadly when he said he had no children of his own, that sweetie could not refuse to go.
Happy Days for Boys and Girls | Various
British Dictionary definitions for sweetie
/ (ˈswiːtɪ) /
sweetheart; darling: used as a term of endearment
British another word for sweet (def. 20)
mainly British an endearing person
a large seedless variety of grapefruit which has a green to yellow rind and juicy sweet pulp
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