Meanings
plural sweetkins
- A sweetheart; darling.
“How clever of you, sweetkin. So it is.”
2010, Catherine Fisher, Sapphique2 more examples
"There now, my sweetkin. Don't be scared. It's just a silly old eunuch."
2004, Debbie Taylor, The Fourth Queen: A NovelThe 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
comparative more sweetkin · superlative most sweetkin
Origin
From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”).
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sweetkin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweetkin
“sweetkin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweetkin. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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