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sweet·ing

 (swē′tĭng)
n.
1. A sweet apple.
2. Archaic Sweetheart.
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sweeting

(ˈswiːtɪŋ)
n
1. (Cookery) a variety of sweet apple
2. an archaic word for sweetheart
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Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting;
I am a lonely man, my sweeting, and I must settle some day when the wars are over and done.
"Let's go out to the orchard and get some of the Red Sweetings, Diana.
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GUISBOROUGH-BORN opera star Sarah Sweeting is returning from the Far East with musical partner Eddie Muliau (pictured right) to sing in the North-East.
And then-first year student Henry Sweeting said Mr Farmer was "more nervous than I was" on the day of the event as they shopped for items they had been told to bring, which included a bottle of spirits, swimming goggles, a Kinder Egg and some lubrication.
Sweeting Street, off Castle Street, came shortly after, named after Thomas Sweeting, who was Mayor in 1698.