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zoet

Pronunciation: /zut/

“zoet” is a Dutch word. Its 9 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. sweet-tasting
  2. sweet, pleasant
  3. calm; well-behaved, like an obedient child
  4. fresh, potable, not saline

noun

  1. the sweet taste
  2. sweets, such as candy
  3. good things in life
  4. an endearment similar to English sweetie or sweetheart
  5. soot

Etymology

From Middle Dutch soete, from Old Dutch suoti, from Proto-West Germanic *swōtī, from Proto-Germanic *swōtuz, from Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂dus.

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