PUPPY LOVE

pup·py love

noun

Meaning:

immature love between a boy and girl

being in love with someone at an early age

an informal term for feelings of love, romance, or infatuation

preliminary infatuation that one feels towards the opposite sex

often felt by young people during their childhood and adolescence

the love between a young couple within a few weeks of getting together

an intense but relatively shallow romantic attachment, typically associated with adolescents

Sentence Example:

Puppy love isn't distinguishable from real love.

The two were hopelessly under the spell of puppy love .

It was just puppy love between Greg and I when we were 9.

"Oh dear, my 15 year old kid has another case of puppy love."

Puppy love is unlocking qualities they never knew they possessed.

That relationship will never last , its a case of puppy love between those two.

How long would she be able to endure the puppy love of this sugar-coated tart?

It's like puppy love calling each other `sweet thing' and `honey bunch' and `buddy boy'.

Word Origin:

late 15c., "woman's small pet dog,"

 of uncertain origin but likely from Middle

 French poupée "doll, toy". Meaning

shifted from "toy dog" to "young dog" (1590s), replacing Middle

 English whelp. In early use in English puppet and puppy were not

always distinct from each other. Also used about that time in sense of "vain

 young man." Puppy-dog first attested 1590s (in Shakespeare, puppi-dogges).

Puppy love is from 1823. Puppy fat is from 1937.

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