sweetmeat

See also: Sweet Meat

English

Alternative forms

• sweatmeat (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English swete-mete, from Old English swete mete. By surface analysis, sweet +‎ meat (“food”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswiːtmiːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

sweetmeat (plural sweetmeats)

1. A sweet delicacy; a confection.
   • 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:

     At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors.

2. (informal) Sweetheart; darling.
   • 2010, Scott Nicholson, The Gorge:

     “Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered.

Translations

sweet delicacy

• Bengali: মিষ্টান্ন (bn) (miśṭannō)
• Bulgarian: бонбон m (bonbon)
• Chinese:

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• Dutch: zoetigheid (nl), suikerwaren pl
• Finnish: makeinen (fi)
• French: friandise (fr) f
• German: Süßigkeiten (de), Süßwaren (de), Süßspeisen (de)
• Ido: sukrajo (io), bonbono (io)
• Irish: póirín guma m
• Latin: cuppēdia n pl, bellāria n pl
• Norwegian: søtsaker pl
• Persian: آفروشه (fa) (âfruše), ویلانج (fa) (vilânj)
• Portuguese: guloseima (pt) f
• Russian: сла́дость (ru) f (sládostʹ)
• Sanskrit: गौड (sa) n (gauḍa)
• Spanish: golosina (es) f, dulce (es) m
• Swahili: halua
• Swedish: sötsak (sv) c
• Tagalog: kumpites
• Ukrainian: со́лодощі pl (sólodošči)

References

• “sweetmeat”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.