Can のろけ話 be used in a platonic sense to refer to closeness amongst female friends?


I was reading a novel where a girl is talking about her friend who is another
girl and someone says uses this phrase : のろけ話

Which I know translates to mean to speak fondly of significant other, but
these girls are described as being just good friends in the novel. So I was
wondering, can this be used to show extreme closeness/admiration between
platonic friends or is it mean to maybe imply that one person likes the other?




Usually not. In that context she is most likely teasing the other that she and
her friend is as "lovey-dovey" as the real lovers.

のろける means "to brag about one's lover", but people often use it too when the
speaker's inner love toward the lover is unconcealed even though s/he has no
such intention. This word is not really for ordinary friends.

