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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Smitten or love-struck; romantically infatuated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, informal
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Synonyms: besotted, besotten, bitten, charmed, enamored, head over heels, in love, infatuated, limerent, love-struck, loved-up, lovesick, smitten, sprung, sweet on, taken, twitterpated
Antonyms: none provided
History
From twitter + pated, i.e., having one's pate (“head”) in a twitter (confused). First used in the Disney movie Bambi (1942).
