earnest² /ûrˈnist/

1. Payment given to confirm a contract (also earˈnest-money or earˈnest-penny)
2. A pledge
3. A sign or foretaste of what is to come
4. First-fruits

• sweet fennel
• sweetfish
• sweet flag
• sweet flags
• sweet fuck all
• sweet gale
• sweet-gale
• sweet gales
• sweet gas
• sweet gases
• sweet gum
• sweet gums
• sweetheart
• sweetheart agreement
• sweetheart agreements
• sweetheart contract
• sweetheart contracts
• swimmer
• swimmeret
• swimmerets
• swimmers
• swimmier
• swimmiest
• swimming
• swimming-bath