Synonyms for oversweet
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sweet |
| Phonetic Transcription : swit |
Top 10 synonyms for oversweet Other synonyms for the word oversweet
Définition of oversweet
Origin :- Old English swete "pleasing to the senses, mind or feelings," from Proto-Germanic *swotijaz (cf. Old Saxon swoti, Swedish söt, Danish sød, Middle Dutch soete, Dutch zoet, Old High German swuozi, German süß), from PIE root *swad- "sweet, pleasant" (Sanskrit svadus "sweet;" Greek hedys "sweet, pleasant, agreeable," hedone "pleasure;" Latin suavis "sweet," suadere "to advise," properly "to make something pleasant to").
- To be sweet on someone is first recorded 1690s. Sweet-talk (v.) dates from 1935; earliest uses seem to refer to conversation between black and white in segregated U.S. Sweet sixteen first recorded 1767. Sweet dreams as a parting to one going to sleep is attested from 1898, short for sweet dreams to you, etc. Sweet and sour in cooking is from 1723 and not originally of oriental food.
- As in cloying : adj sickly sweet
- It would be oversweet at first, and bitterer than wormwood afterwards, as our former civility was.
- Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton
- Of course she used too much perfumed white powder, and as she passed you caught the oversweet breath of a certain heavy scent.
- Extract from : « Cheerful--By Request » by Edna Ferber
- Whereby the oversweet moon of honey changes itself into long years of vinegar; perhaps divulsive vinegar, like Hannibal's.
- Extract from : « The French Revolution » by Thomas Carlyle
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