Home › Words › S › sweetingsweetingsweeting means A surname.EtymologyFrom sweet + -ing.nameA surname.nounA sweet apple.e.g.“a childe will chose a sweeting, because it is presentlie faire and pleasant, and refuse a Runnet, because it is than grene, hard, and lowre[…]” — a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] JoA darling; term of endearment.e.g.“Trip no further, pretty sweeting.” — c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[waDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.pomewater 69% match — A kind of sweet, juicy apple. vs sweeting →sweetly 68% match — With a sweet taste or aroma. vs sweeting →sweetling 66% match — A small, sweet thing. vs sweeting →appleade 65% match — A sweetened apple drink. vs sweeting →sweetness 65% match — The condition of being sweet (all senses). vs sweeting →besweeten 64% match — Sublimely sweeten. vs sweeting →sweetsome 63% match — Marked by sweetness; characteristically sweet vs sweeting →sweetfully 62% match — In a sweetful manner. vs sweeting →