Crossword-Solution: SWEETMEAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sweetmeat | n. | Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. |
| Sweetmeat | n. | The paint used in making patent leather. |
| Sweetmeat | n. | A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SWEETMEAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| NUTMEG, fleshy part of | 1 answer |
| MYRISTICACEAE, fleshy part of the fruit of the | 1 answer |
| Item of confectionary | 1 answer |
| Confectionary or candy | 1 answer |
| Candied fruit, e.g. | 1 answer |
| BARLEY sugar | 1 answer |
| Fondant | 3 answers |
| CANDIED fruit | 5 answers |
| Bull's-eye. | 8 answers |
| Bon-bon | 11 answers |
| Piece of candy | 11 answers |
| cannabis | 20 answers |
| Confection. | 31 answers |
| CANDY ___ | 45 answers |
| Minute particle | 54 answers |
| Delicacy | 74 answers |
| Treat | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SWEETMEAT (5)
But the sweetmeat seller in the camp lent him a little tom-tom--a drum beaten with the flat of the hand--and he sat down, cross-legged, before Kala Nag as the stars began to come out, the tom-tom in his lap, and he thumped and he thumped and he thumped, and the more he thought of the great honor that had been done to him, the more he thumped, all alone among the elephant fodder.
The diet is hard; copra and a sweetmeat of pounded pandanus are the only dishes I observed outside the palace; but there seems no defect in quantity, and the king shares with them his turtles.
But first he felt in the pouch of one for a sweetmeat which his fine nostrils, acute as a squirrel's, told him was there, and taking the lump out bit a piece from it, afterwards replacing it in the owner's pocket with the frankest simplicity.
Such a generous little creature you never saw! A spoonful of bread and milk had always to be taken by Mama or nurse before Carol could enjoy her supper; and whatever bit of cake or sweetmeat found its way into her pretty fingers, it was straightway broken in half and shared with Donald, Paul or Hugh; and, when they made believe nibble the morsel with affected enjoyment, she would clap her hands and crow with delight.
She owes her chocolate-merchant, her candle-merchant, her sweetmeat purveyor; her grocer, her butcher, her poulterer; her architect, and the shopkeeper who sells her rouge; her perfumer, her dressmaker, her merchant of shoes.
Quotes with SWEETMEAT (3)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
I must be getting back to my rooms,” Silence said and stood. Mick frowned with displeasure. “Why?”“Because of Mary Darling.” He shrugged. “One o’ the maids is watchin’ her.”“But if Mary wakes she’ll want me.”“Why?” he asked again, biting into a sweetmeat. This discussion wasn’t to his fancy, but sparring with her was.“Because,” she said slowly, looking at him as if he were lack-witted, “she’s only a baby and she loves me.”“Babies,” Mick pronounced, “are a great trouble.” She …
How did I discover saccharin? Well, it was partly by accident and partly by study. I had worked a long time on the compound radicals and substitution products of coal tar... One evening I was so interested in my laboratory that I forgot about my supper till quite late, and then rushed off for a meal without stopping to wash my hands. I sat down, broke a piece of bread, and put it to my lips. It tasted unspeakably sweet. I did not ask why it was so, probably because I thought …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1961–2021).