Spice vs Sweets - What's the difference?
spice | sweets |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
(British, plurale tantum) Confectionery, candy.
A term of endearment; sweetheart.
As nouns the difference between spice and sweets
is that spice is (countable|uncountable) plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food or spice can be (nonce word) while sweets is (british|plurale tantum) confectionery, candy.As a verb spice
is to add spice or spices to.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
Hyponyms
* See alsoHypernyms
* seasoningCoordinate terms
* herbDerived terms
* allspice * five-spice powder * herbs and spices * spiceberry * spicebush * spicery * spice up * spiciness * spicy * spicy tooth * variety is the spice of lifeVerb
(spic)Derived terms
* spice upEtymology 2
Formed by analogy with (mice) as the plural of (mouse) by .Noun
(head)References
*Anagrams
* English irregular plurals ----sweets
English
(wikipedia sweets)Noun
(head)- I miss you, sweets .