What's the difference between sucket and sweetmeat?

Sucket


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A sweetmeat; a dainty morsel.

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Sweetmeat


Definition:

  • (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.
  • (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.
  • (n.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first thing that Mikhail Khodorkovsky would have seen when he entered the most historic of all five-star establishments in Berlin would have been a large, illuminated model of the hotel itself, made of cinnamon-flavoured sweetmeat.
  • (2) He bought sweetmeats in a leaf-cup from a Hindu trader, and ate them with glad rapture until a policeman ordered him off the steps."
  • (3) He lures an old man with sweetmeats and carries him off.
  • (4) There is an Indian lullaby about the Moon Uncle , who lives far away, eating delicious sweetmeats and offering some in a bowl to the baby.

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