Dictionary entry
Sweetie
Pronunciation: /ˈswiːti/
Pronunciation
/ˈswiːti/
Myanmar Meaning
sweetheart
Definition
sweetie /'swi:ti/ n ( infml ) ၁။ ( Brit ) (ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအား ခ်စ္စႏိုးအေခၚ) ခ်စ္ခ်စ္။ ၂။ ၾကင္နာစိတ္ရိွသူ။ Thanks for helping, you're a sweetie. ၃။ (ခ်စ္စႏိုးအေခၚ) အခ်စ္။ Thank you, sweetie.
Examples
- ‘More than 2
- 000 last week responded to a question sent out on a round-robin e-mail asking ‘Is a Kit Kat a biscuit or a sweetie?’’
- ‘Sometimes
- only a bag of sweeties can ease the pain
- eh?’
- ‘For some reason the Border towns (in Scotland the term ‘border’ refers to the region north of the border with England) showed particular prowess in making sweeties.’
- ‘Send her to the doorstep with the sweeties on Hallowe'en and she'll scare the bejaysus out of the kiddies.’
- ‘Another plea for technical help
- with sweeties after for anyone who helps me.’
- ‘Cosmic chocolate cake
- cookies and sweeties definitely kept the children's energy levels up for the remainder of the day.’
- ‘After that
- it was hard to keep the lid on the sweeties.’
- ‘A hamper of goodies is delivered to your room
- crammed with enough sugary treats to stock a tuck-shop: popcorn
- chocolate and sweeties.’
- ‘I give away stickers and sweeties and poppers (bubble wrap) to the kids.’
- ‘But you'll never catch me at the local cinema - I can't stand it when people put their feet on your chair or munch bags of sweeties in your earhole.’
- ‘It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: as many sweeties as you like and you don't have to pay for any of them.’
- ‘The sweeties that came with coffee (little chocolatey
- chewy nutty things) were accomplished.’
- ‘She bought a few essentials and some sweeties for the children.’
- ‘The Girls' Night In package fills you full of chocolate
- sweeties
- popcorn and ice-cream
- but if you fancy a meal it is well worth ordering from the room-service menu.’
- ‘Love is a game
- with rules and penalties
- not a gift-wrapped box of sweeties
- guaranteed to last until the sun goes down behind the mountaintops.’
- ‘We bought our usual drink
- packet of sweeties
- and bag of popcorn to share.’
- ‘Disgusted
- frustrated and utterly deluded about what's going on here
- we run for the comforting embrace of sweeties and calorie-laden treats.’
- ‘And if your kid acts up at home
- you don't pull him aside and say ‘let's talk about your feelings
- sweetie.’’
- ‘I don't think my sweetie and I can afford to move out of the country
- so… I just don't know.’
- ‘She's such a sweetie… makes me want to get on Eurostar and personally help her with her finishing.’