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sweetie
noun- a sweetheart US, 1925
- Even further, a Bird who takes a stranger home is probably cheating on his true sweetheart, anyway, and when sweetie learns of it he is sure to raise holy hell. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 268, 1956
- You have a touch. But then I’ll bet your steady little sweetie thinks so too. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 241, 1969
- used as a wheedling, patronising form of address US
- Get to work, sweetie. — George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Doyle, p. 148, 1971
- Sweetie ... darling, please fetch mama a cup of coffee. You’re so clever, darling, you know where everything is sweetie. — Jennifer Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous, p. 8, 1992
- It’s a newbie phase, sweetie. Bob was just the same. — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft and Wet, p. 55, 1998
- an effeminate man, usually an effeminate homosexual US
A pejorative, adopted by gays as an ironic endearment. - I asked some sweetie if he ever got pregnant and he said, “How should I know? Do I have eyes in the back of head?” — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 74, 1972
- a sweet (an individual chocolate- or sugar-based item of confectionary) UK
From “sweetmeat”, but now considered a childish extension of “sweet” generally heard in the plural. - [F]inding bonbons or sweeties in the packets[.] — Roundabout Papers, 1860
- tablets for medication or recreation UK
From the sense as “confectionary”. - Looks like the Caliph’s off his sweeties. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock ... & a Fist Full of Jack and Jills, p. 184, 2000
- the drug Preludin, a stimulant that suppresses the appetite US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 30, December 1970
- an amphetamine or MDMA tablet UK
- Just a few sweeties–don’t mean anything. — ID, 1994
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 290, 2003
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