| 单词 | puppy love |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuppy love puppy love n. intense but relatively brief romantic attachment between young people, esp. adolescents; youthful infatuation (cf. calf-love n. at calf n.1 Compounds 2); (also) a young person with whom another is infatuated in this way (rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > love affair > [noun] > romantic attachment between boy and girl puppy love1810 love's young dream1819 calf-love1823 1664 T. Killigrew Thomaso i. v, in Comedies & Trag. 325 Har. See, there they go; halt a little, and give them law enough; the Course will be the fairer. Thom. Not too much law, pray; consider, 'tis but a Puppy-lover that runs.] 1810 Reporter (Brattleborough, Vermont) 6 Jan. Young Master Jerome has a brat, a son A nice lad, born of one Miss Patison, His dame, sweet essence of a dove, Was Master Jerome’s puppy love. 1823 J. Neal Randolph I. 28 After all that I have heard you say of ‘puppy love’, and childish marriages..you were ashamed to tell me, that you were drifting to the same precipice. 1907 Black Cat June 4 He adored her with all the fatuous idolatry of puppy love. 1912 Smart Set Sept. 38/1 It's just fellows like that—puppy loves— that I'm trying to save yu [sic] from. 1994 P. Grescoe Blood Vessel 131 It took her sister and me several raps on the stateroom door to detach Esther from the phone after nine minutes of long-distance puppy love. < as lemmas |
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