twitterpatedadj.
/ˈtwɪtəpeɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈtwɪdərˌpeɪdᵻd/ colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).
1. Love-struck, besotted; infatuated, obsessed. Also: excited, thrilled.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > [adjective]
fevering?a1200
upreareda1382
warm1390
amoveda1400
entalented1402
stirred1483
intoxicatea1533
roused1575
vibrant1575
waked1581
irritated1595
uproused1597
gunpowdered1604
concitated1652
exagitated1659
animated1660
upstirreda1666
instinct1667
hot-headed1679
flushed1749
abubble1766
agig1767
fermentitious1807
suscitated1811
effervescent1833
effervescing1837
quick1837
galvanized1843
ginger beery1849
excited1855
ablaze1859
het1862
effervescible1866
thrilly1893
piqued1902
all of a doodah1915
hopped-up1923
adrenalized1935
volted1936
hyped1938
spooked up1939
twitterpated1942
up1942
jazzed1955
psyched1963
amped1967
plugged-in1967
torqued1967
buzzy1978
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] > elated
jollyc1305
elated1615
elevateda1640
on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672
high1695
elate1702
uppisha1704
vaudyc1720
in fine (also good, high) leg1808
exalté1831
in high snuff1840
bucked1907
thrilled1908
twitterpated1942
the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [adjective]
tender-eyed1535
fond1539
doting1541
doted1550
besotted1580
mally1592
twitterpated1942
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > smitten with love
love-strucka1652
love-stricken1750
love-smitten1833
stricken1841
twitterpated1942
1942 P. Pearce et al. Bambi (transcribed from film) [Thumper] Why are they [sc. the birds] acting that way?.. [Friend Owl] They're twitterpated... Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime.
1942 Daily Independent (Kannapolis, N. Carolina) 20 May 6/5 Victor Mature and Carole Landis are twitterpated.
1972 Arlington (Texas) Daily News 20 Aug. 13/5 You'll fall in love with it [sc. a home] at first sight and you'll stay twitterpated all the way through.
1982 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Calif.) 9 June c3/2 Fly fishing revs up my motors and makes me a bit twitterpated. Certainly there was nothing about the reservoir to get me a-flutter.
1997 Gazette (Colorado Springs) (Nexis) 9 June A few scientists are twitterpated because they think there might be signs of life on one of Jupiter's moons.
2006 H. Raykeil Confessions of Naughty Mommy i. 43 I try to..focus on something besides my baby, but nothing else really interests me. I'm swimming in a world of maternal preoccupation... I'm twitterpated.
2. Foolish, silly; flighty, scatterbrained.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > giddiness, empty-headedness > [adjective]
idlec825
giddyc1000
volage?a1366
apec1370
foolisha1382
vain1390
idleful1483
volageous1487
glaikit1488
cock-brained1530
apish1532
empty1550
sillyc1555
frivolous?1563
tickle-headed1583
light-braineda1593
frothy1593
owlish1596
bird-witted1605
empty-headed1614
idle-headed1614
empty-pateda1628
marmosetical1630
grollish1637
feather-headed1647
nonsense1647
whirl-crowned1648
feather-brained1649
swimmering1650
soft-pated1651
weather-headeda1652
shuttlecock1660
drum-headed1664
chicken-brained1678
halokit1724
desipient1727
shatter-pated1727
scattered-brained1747
light-thoughted1777
scatter-brained1804
shandy-pated1806
hellicat1815
feather-pated1819
inane1819
weather-brained1826
bubble-headed1827
tomfoolish1838
bird-brained1892
tottle1894
fluffy1898
scatty1911
wandery1912
scattery1924
twitterpated1943
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > scatter-brained
madbraina1560
mad-headeda1566
mad-braineda1577
madcap1591
shatter-headedc1686
shatter-brained1727
shatter-witted1775
scatter-brained1804
skivie1808
wuzzy1896
shatter-pated1901
scatty1911
twitterpated1943
1943 Billboard 31 July 13/2 Announcer Ken Niles does a smooth job playing the foil to the foolish (she really ain't) hillbilly... Her twitter-pated trilling of Some of These Days..left nothing to be desired, if that's what you desire.
1959 Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times 12 Nov. 12/1 Hollywood molded Billie Burke into the character of a twitter-pated, bird-witted lady. Miss Burke by her own admission is a little feather-brained.
1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Apr. d12 The wonderfully twitterpated comedian... You're sure that if you opened her head, it would be filled with cotton candy.
2004 Halifax (Nova Scotia) Daily News (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Arts & Entertainment section) 18 Meryl Streep is delightful as a well-meaning but twitter-pated guardian who's too nervous to be of much use.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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