2018年7月16日 星期一

twitterpated




twitterpated

ADJECTIVE

North American 
informal 
  • 1Infatuated or obsessed.
    ‘Gus is still hopelessly twitterpated by Lee’
    ‘smiling into each other's eyes, a seemingly twitterpated couple glided past’
    1. 1.1 In a state of nervous excitement.
      ‘CBS execs are twitterpated over this new idea’

Origin

1940s: from twitter + -pated ‘having a head or mind of a specified kind’ (from pate); popularized by the 1942 film Bambi.



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English[edit]. Etymology[edit]. twitter + pated, i.e., having one's pate (“head”) in a twitter (confused). First used in the Disney movie Bambi (1942). Adjective[edit]. twitterpated (comparative more twitterpated, superlative most twitterpated).

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