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UK
/lˈʌvbɜːd/
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NOUN
- small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors
- small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates
How To Use lovebird In A Sentence
- The parrots who came to me later in life—peach-faced lovebirds, two cockatiels, a crimson rosella—preferred female voices to brassy wind instruments, particularly Joni Mitchell. Birdology
- The new TOWIE lovebirds shared a smooch in the car after a romantic dinner. The Sun
- ‘That's okay, you two lovebirds,’ Jason said mockingly.
- I'll just be over here, leaving you two lovebirds alone.
- And he ended up providing the musical backdrop to the lovebirds' romantic dinner on the island by crooning away as they sat down to eat. The Sun
- She nudged him in a way that suggested all manner of wild creatures, such as lovebirds and storks. Question Quest
- The two cofounders of the company each called the lovebirds into their offices, with very different results. Lead Stories from AOL
- Max overhears the conversation (I've noticed that Max tends to eavesdrop a lot) and he refers to them as lovebirds.
- The bird life was so rich and varied there seemed no end to new kinds, and they lived not in ones and twos but in thousands upon thousands: tiny green-and-yellow parakeets Fee used to call lovebirds, but which the locals called budgerigars; scarlet-and-blue smallish parrots called rosellas; big pale-grey parrots with brilliant purplish-pink breasts, underwings and heads, called galahs; and the great pure white birds with cheeky yellow combs called sulphur-crested cockatoos. The Thorn Birds
- Not long ago, while I'd stepped into the powder room, a couple of tourist lovebirds occupied my base of operations/corner booth.