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• sweet tooth — ► NOUN (pl. sweet tooths) ▪ a great liking for sweet tasting foods …   English terms dictionary

• Sweet potato — Camote redirects here. For the island group in the Philippines, see Camotes Islands. Sweet Potato Sweet potato in flower Hemingway, South Carolina Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

• sweet — adj. & n. adj. 1 having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar. 2 smelling pleasant like roses or perfume etc.; fragrant. 3 (of sound etc.) melodious or harmonious. 4 a not salt, sour, or bitter. b fresh, with flavour unimpaired by rottenness …   Useful english dictionary

• Sweet — adj. & n. adj. 1 having the pleasant taste characteristic of sugar. 2 smelling pleasant like roses or perfume etc.; fragrant. 3 (of sound etc.) melodious or harmonious. 4 a not salt, sour, or bitter. b fresh, with flavour unimpaired by rottenness …   Useful english dictionary

• sweet tooth — noun a strong appetite for sweet food • Hypernyms: ↑appetite, ↑appetency, ↑appetence * * * noun Etymology: Middle English swete toth, from swete sweet + toth tooth more at sw …   Useful english dictionary

• sweet — /swit / (say sweet) adjective 1. pleasing to the taste, especially having the pleasant taste or flavour characteristic of sugar, honey, etc. 2. not rancid, or stale; fresh. 3. fresh as opposed to salt, as water. 4. pleasing to the ear; making a… …  

• sweet tooth — noun (plural sweet tooths) a great liking for sweet tasting foods. Derivatives sweet toothed adjective …   English new terms dictionary

• sweet gale — noun bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter tasting fragrant leaves • Syn: ↑Scotch gale, ↑Myrica gale • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Member Holonyms: ↑Myrica, ↑genus Myrica …   Useful english dictionary

• sweet — I UK [swiːt] / US [swɪt] adjective Word forms sweet : adjective sweet comparative sweeter superlative sweetest *** 1) tasting like sugar I d like something sweet, like a piece of cake. This tea is too sweet. She doesn t really like sweet things.… …   English dictionary

• sweet — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (BrE) noun ⇨ See also ↑candy ADJECTIVE ▪ chewy, jelly, sugary ▪ boiled ▪ cough, throat … OF SWEE …   Collocations dictionary

• sweet — sweet1 [ swit ] adjective *** 1. ) tasting like sugar: I d like something sweet, like a piece of cake. This tea is too sweet. She doesn t really like sweet things. ─ opposite SOUR 2. ) pleasant in smell, sound, or appearance: The room is filled… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English