Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. (Aphra Behn)
Secret love is more exciting than open love
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love custard
semen
love glove
A condom.
love goggles
A romanticized or optimistic view of someone, often due to strong emotions
love hole
vagina
love in a cottage
A marriage for love with- out sufficient means to maintain one's social status. "When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
Love is blind – The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 1 (1591)
Love overlooks flaws and faults
love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without
True love is about needing someone emotionally, not just wanting companionship.
love it or leave it
Accept something completely or reject it entirely
love it or lump it
Accept something willingly or unwillingly
love juice
semen
love laughs at locksmiths
Love can overcome any obstacle or barrier
love makes the world go around
Love is the force that drives and motivates people
love me little, love me long
Constant and enduring love is more valuable than intense but short-lived passion
love me love my dog
If you love me you must put up with my defects. Not to have a word to throw at a dog. Said of one who is sullen or sulky.
love me, love my dog
Accept all aspects of someone, including their flaws and associates
love mound
female breast
love muscle
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
love nest
A private and cozy home for a romantic couple
love of one's life
The most special and beloved person in one's life
love pocket
The vagina.
love pump
The penis.
love sausage
The penis.
love spud
A testicle.
love spuds
Testicles.
love stick
A penis
love truncheon
The penis.
love tunnel
The vagina.
love will find a way
True love can overcome any obstacle
Love's Labour's Lost
The exact form of the title of this, probably the first of Shakespeare's plays (1588), cannot be ascertained, but the above is the generally accepted form, the first *"s" denoting the possessive, and the second the contraction of "is.
loveage
Tap droppings, a mixture of stale spirits, sweetened and sold to habitual dram-drinkers, principally females. Called also "alls."
lovebud
The clitoris.
lovely jubbly
Money.
low blow
An unfair or unkind remark
Low Church
The popular name given to the evangelical party in the Church of England which maintains the essential Protestantism of that institution, adheres to the doctrinal and devotional formulas of the Book of Common Prayer, and regards the Bible as the ultimate rule of faith.
Low Latin
Mediaeval Latin, mainly early French, Italian, Spanish, and so on.
low on the totem pole
Having low status or priority
low road
to act in a mean or unscrupulous way
Low Sunday
The Sunday next after Easter. The popular English name of Low Sunday has probably arisen from the contrast between the joys of Easter and the first return to ordinary Sunday services.
low-water
But little money in pocket, when the finances are at a low ebb.
lower case
The printer's name for the small letters (minuscules) of a fount of type, as opposed to the capitals; these are, in a type-setter's "case," on a lower level than the others.
Lower Empire
The later Roman, especially the Western Empire, from about the founda- tion of the Eastern Empire in 364 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
lower one's sights
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
lower than a snake's belly
Deeply low.
lower the bar
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
lower the boom
to take severe action or impose a penalty
lowering swords
To express a willingness to put yourself unarmed in the power of the person saluted, from a full persuasion of his friendly feeling.
lowing rig
Stealing oxen or cows.
Lowndean Professor
The professor of astron- omy and geometry at Cambridge; so called from Thomas Lowndes (1692-1748) who bequeathed all Ms property for the founding of the chair.
lubber
An awkward fellow: a name given by sailors to landsmen.
lubber
A clown, or fool.—Ancient Cant, LUBBARE. Among seamen an awkward fellow, a landsman.
Lubber's Hole
In sailing ships a seaman's name for the vacant space between the head of a lower mast and the edge of the top, because timid boys, or "lubbers," got through it to the top, to avoid the danger and difficulties of the "futtock shrouds." Hence, some means for, or method of, wriggling through one's difficul- ties.
lubber’s hole
An aperture in the maintop of a ship, by which a timid climber may avoid the difficulties of the "futtock shrouds;" hence as a sea-term the LUBBER’S HOLE represents any cowardly way of evading duty.
lubed up
Drunk.
lubricated
Drunk.
lubrication payment
A bribe or illegal payment to facilitate a business transaction
Lucasian Professor
A professor of mathe- matics at Cambridge. The professorship was endowed by a bequest from Henry Lucas (d. 1663), M.P. for the University.
luck
"down on one’s LUCK," wanting money, or in difficulty.
luck of the draw
a situation where the outcome is determined by chance
luck out
To succeed or benefit by chance
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