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▪ I. sweeting1|ˈswiːtɪŋ|
Also 4–6 sweting, (4 suetyng, 5 swettyng).
[f. sweet a. + -ing3.]
1. A ‘sweet’ or beloved person; dear one, darling, sweetheart. Chiefly as an endearing term of address. arch.
a1300K. Horn 230 (Laud MS.) Hom rod him aylmer king, And wit horn þe sweting. 13..K. Alis. 914 (Laud MS.), Cler & fair is day springyng And makeþ many departyng Bituene kniȝth & his suetyng. c1440York Myst. xl. 40 Þat swettyng was swemyed for swetyng. a1530J. Heywood Wether Plays (1905) 97 A special good lover and she his own sweeting. 1600Breton Daffodils & Primroses Wks. (Grosart) I. 19/1 Litle birdes wowld cary tales Twixte Susen and her Sweetinge. 1740Richardson Pamela (1741) I. xxii. 57 A Blessing attend my little Sweeting,..wher-ever you go! 1812Colman Br. Grins, Vagaries Vind. xxxvii, A curate who..can boast..a sweeting, soured by care, to patch his gown. 1857Thornbury Songs Cavaliers & Roundh. 272 How her little heart was beating, As I clasped her round—the sweeting. 1895A. Austin in Blackw. Mag. Apr. 519 The swain and his sweeting met and kissed.
c1350Will. Palerne 916 ‘Nai sertes, sweting’, he seide, ‘þat schal I neuer.’ c1400Beryn 327 Nowe mercy, dere sweting! I wol do so no more. c1460Towneley Myst. xii. 476 Haylle, maker of man, haylle, swetyng! 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iii. 36 How fares my Kate, what sweeting all a-mort? 1638Ford Fancies ii. ii, Attend within, sweeting. 1721Cibber Rival Fools ii, Why, how now, Sweeting—What, a whole half-hour from me? 1863Holme Lee A. Warleigh III. 117, I will be patient as Job, pretty sweeting! go on. 1890Conan Doyle White Company vii, I am a lonely man, my sweeting.
2. Name for a sweet-flavoured variety of apple.
1530Palsgr. 278/1 Swetyng an apple, pomme doulce. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 36 A childe will chose a sweeting, because it is presentlie faire and pleasant, and refuse a Runnet, because it is than grene, hard, and sowre. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iv. 83 Thy wit is a very Bitter⁓sweeting, It is a most sharpe sawce. 1656Beale Heref. Orchards (1657) 18 The Gennet moyle, the Kydoddin, the Sweeting, and the French Cornell. 1878T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 130 In God's orchards there are..rich, juicy ‘sweetings’ like Rutherford and Baxter. 1908[Miss Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 379 Some remaining Pear and ‘Sweeting’ trees.
▪ II. † ˈsweeting2 Obs.
[f. sweet a. + -ing1.]
Sweet flavouring; sweetness.
1600Breton Daffodils & Primroses Wks. (Grosart) I. 17/1 Reasons sence and learninges sweetinge. a1672Baxter in Lauderdale Papers (Camden) III. App. ii. 238 That all this glory will quickly set in the shaddows of death, & that all this sweeting will turn soure! |