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![New word in the OED
♥ to heart
The new sense added to heart v. in this update may be the first English usage to develop via the medium of T-shirts and bumper-stickers. It originated as a humorous reference to logos featuring a picture of a heart as a symbol for the verb love, like that of the famous ‘I ♥ NY’ tourism campaign. Our earliest quote for this use, from 1984, uses the verb in ‘I heart my dog’s head’, a jokey play on bumper stickers featuring a heart and a picture of the face of a particular breed of dog (expressing a person’s enthusiasm for, say, shih-tzus) which itself became a popular bumper sticker. From these beginnings, heart v. has gone on to live an existence in more traditional genres of literature as a colloquial synonym for ‘to love’.
heart /hɑːt/
verb
[with object] informal
like very much; love:
I totally heart this song
[from use of the symbol ♥, first popularized by the ‘I ♥ NY’ advertising campaign of the late 1970s]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_limqtdXjpr1qzs0wgo1_250.jpg)
