sweetmeat

See also: Sweet Meat

English

Alternative forms

• sweatmeat (obsolete)

Etymology

From sweet +‎ meat (“food”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈswiːtmiːt/

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: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can 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.