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sweetmeat

/sweet-meet/US // ˈswitˌmit //UK // (ˈswiːtˌmiːt) //

糖果,糖果酱,糖果类,糖果业

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. a sweet delicacy, as a candy or candied fruit, or, originally, a cake or pastry.

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Examples

  • When bits of sweetmeat lodged in the teeth, the sucket fork doubled as a nifty toothpick.

  • Most of these here are munching sweetmeats; they love them as children do, and the sweetmeat-seller never lacks trade.

  • Then we see a sweetmeat shop with a crowd outside and a cloud of flies bearing them company.

  • Did you ever consider that the only sweetmeat our forefathers had for thousands of years was wild honey?

  • She had made the sweetmeat herself, and had earned the money to buy a half-dozen tumblers, by braiding rugs for Mrs. Parshley.

  • Forbes laughed at the spectacle of a big, rich man pouting like a reluctant child against having a sweetmeat forced on him.