英语词汇lovebird的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lovebird
词源	lovebird. The West African parrot Agapornis pullarius was apparently the first bird to be called the lovebird because of the remarkable affection it shows for its mate. This usage is record- ed in the late 1500s, over three centuries passing before love- birds is recorded as applying to humans (as an Americanism in the 1930s). But the phrase like a pair of lovebirds was common before this and one doubts that human lovebirds weren’t so called much earlier.
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