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sweets

1. plural of sweet

sweets pl (plural only)

1. Confectionery, candy.
2. (slang) drugs, amphetamine
3. flowers, sweet-scented.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 239:

     Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.
     She scatters flowers

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 259:

     ...she dropped the flowers which Evelyn had given her. Before she even perceived her loss, the King had picked them up, and was about to give them to her, when he perceived the note, and also observed that the seal was yet unbroken. "Mademoiselle has not had time to read a letter so surrounded by sweets—pray use no ceremony."

• boiled sweets

• → Japanese: スイーツ

sweets (plural sweets)

1. A term of endearment; sweetheart.

   I miss you, sweets.

sweets

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sweet

• sewest, weests