单词 | love-struck |
释义 | love-struckadj. Of a person: overwhelmed by feelings of love and affection for someone. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > smitten with love love-strucka1652 love-stricken1750 love-smitten1833 stricken1841 twitterpated1942 a1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iii. i. sig. D, in Five New Playes (1653) Yonder he is, Profoundly Love-struck too, J make no doubt. 1699 Woman's Malice 9 She Love-struck at first View could not withhold her Eyes, from the beloved Rodalus. 1770 Adventures of Actor xviii. 251 The famous Fortune-Teller could only do the ladies business, and aid the love-struck swain in his addresses to the cruel fair-one. 1841 Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pa.) 6 Apr. 1/6 A select number of love-struck and music-struck young gentlemen..took it into their heads..to serenade..an old house in Charles street, in which they believed a young lady to be. 1891 Times 1 Apr. 4/5 The girl, having an eye to the main chance, asks the love-struck Pierrot how much money he has got. 1936 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 20 Oct. 4/5 The next night, lovestruck Phil signed to appear in the show at one-third of his usual salary. He presented himself to Miss Cartwright and wooed her persistently. 1978 L. W. Levine Black Culture & Black Consciousness iv. 276 Even in his most love-struck and submissive mood, Blind Lemon Jefferson made it clear that he knew what he was doing. 2001 K. Walker & M. Schone Son of Grifter iii. 31 I guess my dad needs to exercise a little spin control on his memory, since in the eyes of any objective observer he'd behaved like a lovestruck puppet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1652 |
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