lovey
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lovey
Example Sentences
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Dear Amy: Thank you for sticking up for the teenager who brought his "lovey" to his grandmother's house "Embarrassed Gran."
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021
You know the wonderful old lovey actors, slightly predatory thespians, who did long, long warmups and taught me how to use greasepaint — which we were still using in 1983.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2020
I spent my whole pregnancy angry and resentful, but I kept thinking the happy, lovey feelings would come later.
From Slate • Feb. 16, 2018
He’d be kissing the receiver and lavishing affection – ‘Hello, lovey dovey’ – on a dog!
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2012
Other little kids might have had a blanket or a stuffed animal as their lovey, but Emma had carried around a piece of paper like it was her favorite thing ever.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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