Sweetmeat
['swiːtmiːt] or ['switmit]
Definition
(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.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.
Editor: Marilyn
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Confection, comfit, junket, sugar-plum.
Inputed by Abner
Examples
- Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy 'lemon-stunners'--a local sweetmeat--he presented an oyster-knife at the twins! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- One can gorge sights to repletion as well as sweetmeats. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Chocolat a la Vanille, cried the impenetrable man, cheerfully rattling the sweetmeats in the box, and bowing all round. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typed by Corinne