1570s, from sweet (adj.) + grass (n.). Perhaps so called for the fondness of cattle for it.
sweet tooth
sweetbread
sweet-briar
sweeten
sweetener
sweet-grass
sweetheart
sweetie
sweetly
sweetmeat
sweetness
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