Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sweet delicacy, such as a piece of candy or crystallized fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sweet thing to eat; an article of confectionery made wholly or principally of sugar; a bonbon: usually in the plural.
- n. Fruit preserved with sugar, either moist or dry; a conserve; a preserve: usually in the plural.
- n. One of the common slipper-limpets of the United States, Crepidula fornicata. See Crepidula.
- n. A varnish for patent leather.
Wiktionary
- n. A sweet delicacy; a confection
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
- n. The paint used in making patent leather.
- n. (Zoöl.), Local, U.S. A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sweetened delicacy (as a preserve or pastry)
Examples
“Crunching such a delectable treat as a Pitmaston Pineapple, an old "sweetmeat" -- or small, sweet apple -- is the most enjoyable exercise I've come across, and I'm ready to plant a whole orchard of my own, if I can find a place to put it.”
““’Twas a certain sweetmeat-seller who drugged me and took the gear from me; but where is he gone?””
“In public buildings, visitors are implored, through the same agency, to squirt the essence of their quids, or ‘plugs,’ as I have heard them called by gentlemen learned in this kind of sweetmeat, into the national spittoons, and not about the bases of the marble columns.”
“So Frisk went back and filled his basket with white bread, and red wine, and every kind of sweetmeat, until it was almost too heavy for him to carry.”
“It was a delicious kind of sweetmeat, the like of which he had never tasted before; and the strangest thing about it was that it took his hunger and thirst away.”
“Every conceivable kind of sweetmeat and relish is displayed in the brightly lit window.”
“When each kind of sweetmeat was finished, she skimmed it, and put it away to cool in enormous bowls before potting.”
“Cocoa and chocolate are admissible only with the dainty, æsthetic varieties, in which fruit or some kind of sweetmeat is used.”
Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes
“If you pay a call in Bucarest you will be offered _Dolceazza_, a kind of sweetmeat, and a glass of water.”
“The Boers call the conglomerate "_banket_" (accented on the last syllable), which is their name for a kind of sweetmeat, because the pebbles lying in the cement are like almonds in the sugary substance of the sweetmeat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sweetmeat’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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confusing
megaplankton, aeroplankton, semi-evergreen, quantum triviality, dead-man's vigila..., simplicial complex, abstract simplici..., sweetmeat, turbopause
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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sweet
(often too sweet)
honeysuckle, nectarivore, mellifluous, honeyguide, honeyeater, nectar, honey-tube, nectary, honey fungus, blood sugar, noble cane, electuary and 21 more...
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w8f's Words
chortle, shad, escapology, gonad, suspicious, brusque, shriek, panoply, vista, grizzly, gristle, grist and 48 more...
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Stomach turners
These make me uncomfortable or queasy.
killcow, adipocere, roman shower, copremesis, ascites, scaphism, tomalley, gleet, tyremesis, casu marzu, vomitive, paragonimiasis and 11 more...
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TT3 Lesson 28
asylum, bath, booth, boxing ring, commited, congress, creativity, deer, driveway, English muffins, eggplant, essay and 42 more...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
nuptial, pert, revelling, nosegay, sweetmeat, abjure, mewed, betwixt, vantage, avouch, extenuate, belike and 6 more...
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Upplucked
Yom.
apricot, macadamia, flan, cheesecake, sushi, sprouts, marmalade, chai, smoothie, cupcake, lasagna, spirulina and 40 more...
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Little Bites
appetizer, antipasto, gravlax, caponata, ceviche, rumaki, drumette, potato skin, crudites, escargot, pu pu, mandram and 55 more...
Tweets
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deinonychus Accidentally read about sweetbread on Wikipedia. Read that it should not be confused with sweetmeat. Both these words confuse/disgust me now. In a good way. May 12, 2012