cupboard love
nounDefinitions
Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in…
Insincere (and usually fickle) love pretended in the hope of gaining something useful in exchange.
- I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cupboard love. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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