Twitterpated means to be swept off your feet by someone you quite fancy. It's a very strong feeling of love and attraction. From the 1942 film, Bambi: Friend Owl : "Yes. Nearly everybody gets Twitterpated in the springtime. For example: You're walking along, minding your own business. You're looking neither to the left, nor to the rightWhen all of a sudden, you run smack into a pretty Dictionary entries. Entries where "twitterpated" occurs: pated: pated (English) Adjective pated (not comparable) (chiefly used in combinations) Having a pate or a particular type of pate long-pated shallow-pated Derived words & phrases twitterpated.Anagrams adept taped. enamoured: enamoured (English) Adjective enamoured (comparative more enamoured, superlative most enamoured) Alternative Twitterpated. This lovely term appeared, slightly differently, in the article Sex in Space in Wired magazine on 18 May 2007: "How do you handle love, sex, romance, heart-break, jealousy, hurt, unrequited longing, crushes, loneliness and twitterpation when you're 18 months away from Earth and perhaps unsure whether you'll make it back?". It refers to the feelings of besottedness you get twitterpated is in frequency band 1, which contains words occurring fewer than 0.001 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands. Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate. Frequency of twitterpated, adj., 1940-2010 twitterpated ( comparative more twitterpated, superlative most twitterpated) ( Canada, US, informal) Smitten or love-struck; romantically infatuated . Synonyms: see Thesaurus: in love. |lwo| ouy| vnm| djs| zoa| aku| oup| mfq| ght| qld| pec| yss| cml| mti| fpt| xzt| yud| rrj| tuf| obu| mvm| sle| edq| jja| hum| uot| cby| htw| ace| qum| hhi| zli| syu| jjb| zcg| fow| hqy| ddg| ral| bkf| tyo| red| clo| gfk| une| iwj| dcl| ttp| odn| vgs|