sweetling
- noun
- /ˈswitˌlɪŋ/
- Archaic
:
dulce
- She offered each guest a colorful sweetling from the decorative jar on the table.
Examples
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After dinner, the children eagerly shared a sweetling as a special treat.
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He wrapped a homemade sweetling in paper and gave it to his friend.
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I bought a sweetling from the candy store.
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These sweetlings are my favorite treat!
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After dinner, the children eagerly shared a sweetling as a special treat.
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She offered each guest a colorful sweetling from the decorative jar on the table.
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He wrapped a homemade sweetling in paper and gave it to his friend.
Synonyms
863
1.0
A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts
71
1.0
A sweet made of chocolate or sugar that you eat as a snack
69
1.0
A small sugary food eaten after a meal
62
2.3
A small sweet food people eat for pleasure
28
3.2
A small piece of food that you eat in one bite
26
4.4
A small sweet candy often made of chocolate and wrapped in foil
24
1.0
A hard sweet on a small stick that you lick or suck
8
3.7
Sweet food like candy or a small cake
6
6.4
A sweet treat on a stick like a lollipop or an ice pop
4
1.1
A small sweet bread made with yeast, often with cinnamon, nuts, or glaze
3
8.8
A small sweet food like candy or fruit covered in sugar eaten as a treat
2
5.3
A small, tasty piece of food often given as a treat
1
1.0
A hard sweet made by boiling sugar and letting it cool
1
1.0
A small sweet food high in sugar eaten between meals as a treat
1
1.0
A small sweet with a mint taste that is often hard or chewy
1
8.7
A small soft candy that you chew
1
2.9
A light fluffy sweet made from spun sugar at fairs
1
2.7
Fruit cooked in sugar syrup and coated in sugar for a sweet treat
1
5.7
A small very tasty piece of food that people choose first
A small wrapped piece of chocolate you eat in one bite
A chewy candy made from sugar and butter that people pull and stretch
A thin hard sweet made with honey that breaks easily
How Sweet
- UK
15
1.9
- Archaic
- Archaic
3
8.8
- US
863
1.0
17
3.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweetling is made from sweet and the little ending -ling, the same ending you see in duckling or seedling to show something small. So a sweetling is literally a 'small sweet', which is why it means a little piece of candy.