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DEFINITION: n. A person who is so heels-over-head obsessed with someone, that they trip over their own tongue every time they meet them. v. To be so infatuated that you trip over your tongue.
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Stardumbstruck
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: star dum struk
Sentence: She gazed at him, stardumbstruck, her heart pounding like a cornered rodent.
Etymology: stardom, dumbstruck
Lipstuck
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lip/stuc
Sentence: She tried and tried but she was so lipstuck by his presence that she couldn't speak.
Etymology: lipstick + stuck
Splutteration
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: splut-ter-ay-shun
Sentence: Many people are affected by splutteration; the inability to form correct, coherent sentences when in the presence of a crush.
Etymology: splutter (to stumble over one's words) plus adoration (love)
Twitterpated
Created by: Sed8ed
Pronunciation: twit-her-pay-ted
Sentence: Anyone could tell Lisa was twitterpated with Bob by the way she lost her ability to complete a sentence when she spoke to him.
Etymology:
Concrushed
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: con-CRUSH-d
Sentence: Lulu fell in lust at first sight and since then had shown the embarrassing effects of being concrushed.
Etymology: concussed (having suffered an injury to the brain) + crush (distort, destroy AND an intense infatuation)
Stamenamoured
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: st-am-en-ahhm-erd
Sentence: Is she flighty or is she actually that unintelligent? Oh no, shes just stamenamoured. Oh.
Etymology: from stammer + enamoured
Cardiolinguofuse
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /"kärd-E-O-'li[ng]-gw&-"fyüz/
Sentence: Normally, he was a smooth talker, but around Sam, he would almost always cardiolingofuse into an inarticulate lump of blushes and giggles.
Etymology: Cardio- (heart) + linguo- (tongue) + -fuse (become indistinguishable, as in confuse)
Flirtblurt
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: FLERT-blert
Sentence: Whenever he saw the voluptuous Ms. Crabtree, Bobby was incapable of coherent speech. Today he flirtblurted, "May I have a hall ass?"
Etymology: flirt + blurt
Crusholalia
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: krəsh-ō-ˈlā-lē-ə
Sentence: n. Every time she tried to talk to him she was struck by a debiliatating case of crusholalia, leaving her unable to make sense and sounding like a dork.
Etymology: crush (in the sense of a temporary infatuation) + o (as a joiner between roots for flow) + lalia (the suffix used to denote abnormal speech such as copralalia [the uncontrollable yelling of curse words associated with some forms of Tourette's], glossolalia [speaking in tongues associated with some religions], and echolalia [the tendency to repeat what others say or the last word or syllable another said])
Twitterprated
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: twit-ter-pray-ted
Sentence: Bambi would become completely twitterprated when Tom walked into the room and act like a schoolgirl with her first crush. You would never know that she was a Speech Therapist by the inarticulate babble coming from her mouth.
Etymology: twitterpated: flighty, excited feeling you get when you see someone you are attracted to (from the movie Bambi)+ prate: to blather or babble on endlessly; foolish chatter