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sweetie

[ swee-tee ]

/ ˈswi ti /

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noun

Informal. sweetheart.

Usually sweeties. British. candy; sweets.

Origin of sweetie

First recorded in 1695–1705; sweet + -ie

Words nearby sweetie

sweetening, sweetheart, sweetheart agreement, sweetheart contract, sweetheart neckline, sweetie, sweetie pie, sweetiewife, sweeting, sweetish, sweetleaf

Example sentences from the Web for sweetie

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 |DAILY BEAST
For Hugh understood no sorrow which a sweetie would not make better.

Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City |S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) 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

So Sweetie told them all Mr. Rogers had said and done for her.

Happy Days for Boys and Girls |Various
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

British Dictionary definitions for sweetie

sweetie

/ (ˈswiːtɪ) /

noun informal

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