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The job title with no contract, no raise, and surprisingly strict unwritten KPIs.
means A person someone is romantically and sexually involved with, especially outside a formal marriage or as a less official counterpart to it.
from Straightforward Old English stock: 'love' (lufu) plus the agentive suffix '-er', meaning simply 'one who loves.' The word has drifted in formality over centuries — at times a polite enough term for a romantic partner, at other times (especially in the 'the other woman/man' sense, or in phrases like 'star-crossed lovers') carrying a whiff of scandal or secrecy that plain old 'love' never had.
- etymology
- Old English lufu, same root as belief and praise
- linguistic quirk
- sounds tender, legal paperwork disagrees completely
- common confusion
- not a job, often performed like one anyway
- taylor swift tax
- 2019 album made the word impossible to say casually