Sweet talk

Definition

sweet /swi:t/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ခ်ဳိေသာ။ ခ်ဳိျမေသာ။ sweet apples/ biscuits/ drinks ❍ sweet wine ❍ This cake is too sweet for me. ၂။ ေမႊးႀကိဳင္ေသာ။ သင္းၾကဴေသာ။ သင္းပ်ံ႕ေသာ။ The air was sweet with the scent of lilies. ❍ ( fig ) There's nothing like the sweet smell of success. ၃။ ခ်ဳိသာေသာ။ သာယာေသာ။ နားဝင္ခ်ဳိေသာ။ the sweet song of the blackbird ❍ The soprano's voice sounded clear and sweet. ၄။ သန္႔ရွင္းၾကည္လင္ေသာ။ ခ်ဳိေသာ။ the sweet air of the countryside ❍ The spring water was sweet (ie not salty, unpleasant, etc) to the taste. ၅။ သာယာခ်မ္းေျမ႕ ေသာ။ ႏွစ္လို႔ဖြယ္။ the sweet feeling of freedom/ success ❍ Sweet dreams (ie said to sb going to sleep). ၆။ (က) ( infml ) ခ်စ္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ခ်ဳိေသာ။ ခ်စ္စရာ။ a sweet face/ smile/ gesture ❍ a sweet little dog/ baby/ cottage ❍ She looks sweet in that dress. ❍ NICE (ခ) ခ်စ္စရာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ သေဘာေကာင္းေသာ။ a sweet child/ old lady ❍ a sweet temper/ nature/ disposition ❍ such a sweet-tempered/ sweet-natured girl ❍ It is sweet of you to have remembered us. n ၁။ [C often pl ] ( Brit ) ( US candy [U,C]) အခ်ဳိ။ သၾကား လံုး။ a packet of boiled sweets ❍ You shouldn't eat sweets between meals. ❍ a sweet shop. ၂။ [C,U] ( Brit ) = DESSERT: have some more sweet ❍ What's for sweet? ၃။ (ခ်စ္စႏိုးအေခၚ) အခ်စ္။ Yes, my sweet. ❏ be sweet on sb [ IDM ] ( dated infml ) မ်က္စိက်သည္။ က်သည္။ ❏ have a sweet tooth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အခ်ဳိႀကိဳက္သည္။ ❏ in one's own sweet time/ way [ IDM ] စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ သေဘာရိွသလို။ It's no use getting impatient with him — he'll do it in his own sweet time. ❏ keep sb sweet [ IDM ] ( infml ) သူ႕အႀကိဳက္ လိုက္ေလ်ာ သည္။ ေခ်ာ့ေမာ့သည္။ I need to keep my boss sweet because I want to ask for some time off. ❏ sweet- and- sour adj ခ်ဳိခ်ဥ္။ Chinese sweet-and- sour pork. ❏ sweet corn n [U] သၾကားေျပာင္း။ an ear of sweet corn. ❏ sweetish adj ခ်ဳိတိုတို။ ခ်ဳိျမျမ။ ❏ sweetly adv ၁။ သင္းပ်ံ႕စြာ။ ခ်ဳိသာစြာ။ sweetly scented flowers ❍ sing/ smile sweetly. ၂။ ေျပေျပျပစ္ျပစ္။ ညက္ညက္ ေညာေညာ။ The engine was running sweetly. ❍ All our plans are going sweetly. ❏ sweetness n [U] အခ်ဳိ။ ခ်ဳိျခင္း။ ❏ (all) sweetness and light [ IDM ] ( ironic ) ပ်ဴပ်ဴငွာငွာ။ ညက္ညက္ေညာေညာ။ Yesterday he was rude and unpleasant to me but this morning he's all sweetness and light. ❏ sweet nothings [ IDM ] ( infml or joc ) တီတီတာတာ။ She whispered sweet nothings in his ear. ❏ sweet pea n ပဲပန္း။ ❏ sweet potato n ( pl -oes ) ကန္စြန္းဥ။ Compare YAM ❏ sweet talk n [U] ( infml ) ကပ္ခြၽဲျခင္း။ ႏႉးျခင္း။ ❏ sweet-talk v ~ sb (into sth/ doing sth) စည္း႐ံုးသည္။ ေခ်ာ့ေမာ့သည္။ He tried to sweet-talk me into lending him my car.

Examples

1. I’d like something sweet
2. like a piece of cake.
3. This tea is too sweet.
4. She doesn’t really like sweet things.
5. The room is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers.
6. The entire audience was entranced by her clear sweet voice.
7. A sweet little kitten
8. The victory was sweet revenge for the team’s defeat last season.
9. [the sweet smell of success] : We have yet to experience the sweet smell of success.
10. Caroline was the sweetest little girl I have ever looked after.
11. [sweet of] : It was so sweet of you to do this.