puppy love
Americannoun
noun
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“You know, you have puppy love experiences, you think that’s love,” the 23-year-old actor-singer told Cosmopolitan in an interview published Tuesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
“Show a little puppy love to your pet and take it out of the carrying case,” Farbstein said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
Velma asks, her voice desperate with puppy love.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Boston-based RR Auction says the handwritten draft of a letter to his eldest son, Thomas — then 14 — shows the “Of Mice and Men” author’s empathy: He refused to dismiss it as puppy love.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
I suppose there’s A time in practically every young boy’s life when he’s affected by that wonderful disease of puppy love.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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