crushlike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

crush +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

crushlike (comparative more crushlike, superlative most crushlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid. Such a crushlike intensity of looking suggested hunger.
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