A person who loves to eat sweets

Q: What to call a person who likes sweets?

The English idiom sweet tooth” is used for people who like sweet-tasting foods (cakes, sweets, pudding, candy and desserts).

someone who likes eating sweet things and finds them hard to resist

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The croissant-muffin combo already has a huge following of sweet tooths over the pond in San Francisco, and now it’s coming to London.

Submitted from:
United Kingdom on 12/04/2015

Hi everyone,

I am thinking of the word to call someone who loves eating sweet stuff like candies, cakes etc. Either a noun or adjective will help.

For example, I want to express my idea like this:

- She is a ____________. She eats cakes all the time.
- This cake was too large for one person. But she is very ________, so she had it all by herself.

Thanks.

Hmmm, you could says she has a sweet tooth.

That means that she likes to eat sweet things.

Hmmm, you could says she has a sweet tooth.
That means that she likes to eat sweet things.

Thanks for your suggestion ... but I am a little confused with the "a". Isn't "tooth" plural?

If she particularly likes cakes, you could call her a "cake-aholic" in American English. "-aholic" can be added to almost anything to playfully imply that someone is addicted to something.

"A sweet tooth" is a fixed expression. It can't be changed to "sweet teeth".

Oh silly me, I have an awful mistake. Yes "tooth" is singular, how could I?

Thank you.

you could call her a "cake-aholic" in American English.

That would certainly work in British English too

Or you could try sugar-fiend

It might seem like a sugar-coated overgeneralization to say that people with sweet dispositions also really like sweets, but a small new study is giving some weight to the idea.

The findings, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, show that people who like sweets are also more likely to be agreeable, friendly and compassionate than people who prefer other tastes, like bitter or spicy foods.

Researchers also found that people given sweet foods were more likely to help someone in need afterward, compared with people who don't eat anything or people who eat a bland food, MSNBC reported.

"Our results suggest there is a robust link between sweet tastes and pro-social behavior," study researcher Michael D. Robinson, of North Dakota State University, told EHS Today. "Such findings reveal that metaphors can lead to unique and provocative predictions about people’s behaviors and personality traits."

The findings were based off a series of experiments involving college students.

Another study published earlier this year also shows that there seems to be an association between having a sweet tooth and having a slim waist (though that study was admittedly funded by the National Confectioners Association), but researchers said that's likely because they exercise more to compensate for the extra calories, MSNBC reported.

Now if you were to completely disregard the scientific method, the Baltimore Sun published this (totally invented) guide to what your favorite candy says about your personality type.

Meaning of sweet tooth in English

Examples of sweet tooth

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The sweet tooth exhibits specificity and proficiency for motivating people to seek out such foods or to choose these foods when given a choice.

One of the interesting characteristics of the sweet tooth is that it motivates us to eat sweets even when we become obese and our health is endangered.

Some of us have a sweet tooth, and would like a nice home-baked cake.

The reason is that the nation has a sweet tooth, the size of which we could not entirely assess.

It's also said in the show that tricksters have a sweet tooth.

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