sweetman

African-American Vernacular

• He recalled the colored sweetmen and touts and girls with whom he had been familiar in America, some who lived in the great obscure region of the boundary between white and black.1929, Claude McKay, Banjo: A story without a plot:
• They needed whores, pimps, the sweetmen; bistros, honky-tonks, spider-nests; the perverse, the perverted, the psychopathic.1939, J. Saunders Redding, To Make a Poet Black, page 119: