sweetie
/ˈswiːti
/(also sweety)
noun informal
1British A sweet.The Girls' Night In package fills you full of chocolate, sweeties, popcorn and ice-cream, but if you fancy a meal it is well worth ordering from the room-service menu....
- A hamper of goodies is delivered to your room, crammed with enough sugary treats to stock a tuck-shop: popcorn, chocolate and sweeties.
- For some reason the Border towns (in Scotland the term ‘border’ refers to the region north of the border with England) showed particular prowess in making sweeties.
2 (also sweetie-pie) Used as a term of endearment.It's okay, sweetie-pie, calm down for mommy, please....
- And if your kid acts up at home, you don't pull him aside and say ‘let's talk about your feelings, sweetie.’
- He answered it with a hearty, ‘Hello, sweetie!’
Rhymes
- unappealing
- unappealingly
- unappeasable
- unappeased
- unappetising
- unappetizing
- unappetizingly
- unapplied
- unappreciated
- unappreciative
- unapprehended
- unapproachability
- unapproachable
- unapproachableness
- unapproachably
- unappropriated
- unapproved
- unapt
- unaptly
- unaptness
- unarguable
- unarguably
- unarm
- unarmed
- unarmed combat