lovey-dovey
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lovey-dovey (comparative more lovey-dovey, superlative most lovey-dovey)
- (informal) Affectionate in a rather mushy or oversentimental fashion.
- 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 14, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 November 2020:
- And then when she'd put me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and get me. And I always went.
- 1979, “Life During Wartime”, in Fear of Music, performed by Talking Heads:
- This ain't no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey / I ain't got time for that now
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