lovesick
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English
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[edit]lovesick (comparative more lovesick, superlative most lovesick)
- Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love.
- 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
- And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.
- 1997, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
- I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick
- Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
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[edit]behaving oddly due to love
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having an aching desire for one's beloved
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