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Sweeting

Sweeting

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A name that people in the same family share as their last name
  • proper noun
  • /ˈswitɪŋ/
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  • In a survey of 133 manufacturers in the U.K., Davies and Sweeting (1993) found that ABC is used to redesign business processes and to refine performance measurement systems.
  • Sweeting and Rink
  • Sweeting and Wayne

Examples

  • "People like you," he said to Miss Sweeting, who was trying, in her tortuous way, to express shock; "People like you impede the march of science."

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Make way for Mr. Sweeting.

    Academic text (1992)

  • The detective interviewed several witnesses, including Mr. Sweeting, about the incident.

  • At the family reunion, I met my distant cousin, Sweeting, for the first time.

  • In the documentary, the filmmaker spoke with Sweeting about his family's history.

Surface Forms

Sweeting main

Etymology

The word Sweeting is a family name that comes from the English word sweet, meaning 'pleasant' or 'nice'. Long ago people used sweet as a friendly nickname, often like 'little sweet one', so that nickname became a last name and still gives the family a sense of being kind or pleasant today.