Word family noun love lover loveliness. lovey adjective lovable ≠ unlovable loveless lovely loving unloved verb love adverb lovingly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishloveylov‧ey /ˈlʌvi/ noun [countable] British English spoken informal WOMANa word used to address a woman or child, that many women think is offensive → luvvieExamples from the Corpus
lovey• You'd better tell me before you run out of breath, lovey.• But, lovey, that's no great crime.• There are consequences, lovey, didn't Sartori tell you that?• We all do, lovey, we all do.• He was careless, true, but that's not murder, that's manslaughter, lovey.• Are you not well, lovey? 