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sweetheart:
1. A person who is loved; the object of one's love and affection .
Synonyms: apple-of-one's-eye ; beloved ; boyfriend; dear; dear-one ; darling ; dearest; favorite; flame ; girlfriend ; heart's-desire ; heartthrob ; honey ; inamorata ; inamorato ; ladylove ; light-of-love ; light-of-one's-life ; light-of-one's-eyes ; love of one's life ; loved-one ; lovee ; lover ; object-of-one's-affection ; object of all of one's affection ; one-and-only ; one's-everything ; one's-own ; one's onliest , one's weekness; onliest one; pet ; precious; pulse-accelerator ; pulse-upperer ; soft-spot ; steady (date); suitor; sweetheart; sweetie ; sweetie-pie ; sweets ; truelove (true love); turtledove; valentine ; wooer. Quotes:
(1) Lou (Lou Costello) in One Night in the Tropics (1940): ' A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed .'
(2) Allan (Woody Allen) with a Humphrey Bogart accent in Play It again, Sam (1972): ' Sorry I had to slap you around, sweetheart, but you got hysterical when I said no more .'
2. A term of endearment for a loved-one . Synonym: darling .
3. A person who is well liked or loved; a dearly loved person; a likable or lovable person.
4. A very attractive or seductive looking woman .
5. Something dear, very agreable, excellent. ' A sweetheart of a ...'
See Also: old flame, steady, steady date, current excitement, darlink, dollink, lady-love, ladylove, latest enthusiasm, big moment, biggest enthusiasm, extinguished flame, sweet-hot, Tom-tart, cuddler and cooer, dear one, steady goer, sweetie pie, sweetie, sweets, sweet patootie, one's weakness, patootie, soft nothings, spare tire, Dulcinea, leman, O.A.O., flame, gill, honeycakes, in-lover, inamorata, inamorato, jam-tart, bo, brown sugar, Colleen Bawn, cuddler, amatorculist, arm-clutcher, arm-in-armer, babycakes, ball and chain, sweetheart,
Quotes Containing sweetheart:
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) to his childhood sweetheart Jerri Bondi (Gena Rowlands) in Lonely are the Brave (1962): ''I''m a loner, clear down deep to my guts. Know what a loner is? He''s a born cripple. He''s cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It''s his life the way he wants to live. It''s all-for him.''
'Running into an old sweetheart . If all his old sweethearts were laid end to end you could use them as a sidewalk.' Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) about her husband in The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Mitch Hennessy (Samuel L. Jackson) to Charlene Baltimore (Geena Davis) coming-on to him in The Long Kiss Goodnight (1997): ''Get real, sweetheart . I ain''t handsome , I ain''t rich, and the last time I got blown candy bars cost a nickel.''
Lou (Lou Costello) in One Night in the Tropics (1940). The same joke was repeated in The Noose Hangs High (1948): ''A husband is what''s left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.''
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