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Definition: Cupboard Love |
Cupboard LoveNoun1. A show of affection motivated by selfishness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cupboard Love Love from interested motives. The allusion is to the love of children to some indulgent person who gives them something nice from her cupboard. "Cupboard love is seldom true." - Poor Robin. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CUPBOARD LOVE. Pretended love to the cook, or any other person, for the sake of a meal. My guts cry cupboard; i.e. I am hungry. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cupboard love"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حب كاذب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | amour intéressé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fauler schmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | graih ny gailley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upboardcay ovelay relaţii sentimentale bazate pe interes. (various references) корыстная любовь. (various references) matfrieri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-l-o-o-p-r-u-v" | |
-3 letters: boulevard, carpooled, overcloud, pureblood. | |
-4 letters: barleduc, caboodle, coloured, cupboard, cupolaed, decolour, laboured, levodopa, opercula, overbold, overcold, overload, overloud, poularde, pourable, provable, uropodal, vapoured. | |
-5 letters: alcoved, becloud, blooped, blooper, bluecap, boodler, boulder, bravoed, brocade, caroled, carpool, cloured, codable, codrove, colored, copulae, copular, cordoba, coupled, coupler, couvade, coverup, cudbear, curable, decolor, doubler, dupable, durable, labored. | |
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