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love bird

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love bird 
1595, "small species of W.African parrot, noted for the remarkable attention mating pairs pay to one another;" fig. sense of "a lover" is attested from 1911.
"Hold hands, you lovebirds." [Emil Sitka]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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