"sweetkin" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more sweetkin [comparative], most sweetkin [superlative]
Etymology: From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sweet|kin|id2=diminutive}} sweet + -kin, {{cog|dum|soetken||a sweetheart}} Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} sweetkin (comparative more sweetkin, superlative most sweetkin)
  1. Sweet; lovely.
    Sense id: en-sweetkin-en-adj-M2vRTMwr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -kin (diminutive) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -kin (diminutive): 75 25

Noun

Forms: sweetkins [plural]
Etymology: From sweet + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sweet|kin|id2=diminutive}} sweet + -kin, {{cog|dum|soetken||a sweetheart}} Middle Dutch soetken (“a sweetheart”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} sweetkin (plural sweetkins)
  1. A sweetheart; darling.
    Sense id: en-sweetkin-en-noun-kLSVdVcu

Inflected forms

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