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lovey-dovey
adjective
extremely affectionate, sentimenal, romantic US, 1886
Heard at the turn of the century, then obsolete; heard again in the late 1940s. When not a genuine endearment, it tends to be used contemptuously.- All this lovey-dovey crap. Wanting everything so perfect. I might’ve known this was the old brush-off. — Horace McCoy, Kiss Tomorrow Good-bye, p. 309, 1948
- It’s a goddam shame the helling around I do, cheating on her and writing lovey-dovey letters. — Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, p. 553, 1948
- Well, diary, when we got all lovey-dovey who should come in but Jill. — Jess Stearn, Sisters of the Night, p. 39, 1956
- The HIP merchants were naturally afraid that Emmett and the Diggers might seize upon the moment to distrub their sweet, lovey dovey courtship of the media[.] — Emmett Grogan, Ringolevio, p. 267, 1972
- “My parents have never been so lovey-dovey... They were going at it for hours,” he confided. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 456, 1993
- Fine, go round there, give her one [have sex] and be all lovey dovey with her. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 115, 2001
- Having entranced their public with a lovey-dovey hit entitled “A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow”, they separated. — The Guardian, 30 November 2003
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