Crushlike
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From crush + -like.
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