twitterpated
\TWIT-er-pey-tid\
adjective
1. Informal. excited or overcome by romantic feelings; smitten.
Quotes
A major rite of passage in this pastoral Bildungsroman is the "Twitterpated" sequence where Bambi, Flower, and Thumper learn about springtime mating and the necessity to avoid it from Friend Owl…, who warns them: "nearly everyone gets twitterpated in the spring time."
-- Kirsten Moana Thompson, edited by Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon, "Classical Cel Animation, World War II, and Bambi, 2015
Origin
Twitterpated comes from the 1942 animated movie Bambi. It is a combination of twitter meaning "tremulous excitement," and pate as in "head" or "brain."
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