subs. pl. (common).—Sweetmeats: also SWEET-STUFF.
d. 1758. RAMSAY, Poems, II. 547. SWEETIES to bestow on lasses.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 216. The SWEET-STUFF maker (I never heard them called confectioners) bought his ‘paper’ at the stationer’s, or the old book-shops.
1863. THACKERAY, The Roundabout Papers, x. Instead of finding bonbons or SWEETIES in the packets which we pluck off the boughs, we find enclosed Mr. Carnifex’s review of the quarter’s meat.
