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(Swetie,) Sweté, Sweitie, Sweetie, n. Also: sweity, sweittie, suettie, swittie. [Swet(e adj. Also in the later dial.] A sweet, an item of confectionery. Also, whyt sweities, ? confectionery made from white or spun sugar. 1661 Old Ross-shire I 150.
Item for suetties 12 sh. 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 158.
5 souse on a quartron of dragées or sweityes 1671 Lauder Jrnl. 250.
To Rot. Mein, for sweteis 1674 Lauder Jrnl. 270.
Upon sweities, 4 pence 1674 Cunningham Diary 39.
To my Uncle's son, to his fairing, I bought the worth of in sweeties [6 s.] 1705 Foulis Acc. Bk. 396.
For the switties for little miss — 1677 Edinb. B. Rec. X 292.
The councill taking to there consideratione the complent … against the insufficiencie of confeits whyt sweities sugar biskitt and tablets of sugar [etc.]