sweetkin

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noun

A sweetheart; darling.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounsweetkin (plural sweetkins)

plural sweetkins

  1. A sweetheart; darling.

    “How clever of you, sweetkin. So it is.”

    2010, Catherine Fisher, Sapphique
    2 more examples

    "There now, my sweetkin. Don't be scared. It's just a silly old eunuch."

    2004, Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen: A Novel

    The screaming stopped briefly for want of breath and, quickly noticing his wife's expression and without an iota of guile evident, he said, 'On the other hand, my sweetkin, maybe you're right, you always are, you're so clever, so yes, […]

    2009, Cassandra Clark, Hangman Blind
adjectivesweetkin (comparative more sweetkin, superlative most sweetkin)

comparative more sweetkin · superlative most sweetkin

Origin

From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”).

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APA

sweetkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweetkin

MLA

“sweetkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweetkin. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sweetkin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweetkin.

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