sweetmeat

Etymology

sweet + meat (“food”)

noun

  1. A sweet delicacy; a confection.
    At the principal stations there are also separate Hindu and Mohemmedan refreshment rooms, and some mail trains have compartments reserved for Indian tea and sweetmeat vendors. 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 119
  2. (informal) Sweetheart; darling.
    “Hey, sweetmeat, where you been?” Farrengalli hollered. 2010, Scott Nicholson, The Gorge

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