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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: love or hate? #117133 12/06/03 07:56 AM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 J Jenet journeyman Jenet journeyman J Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 The OED dates the love-striking sense (its sense 8) to 1665. I suppose it comes from a jocular use of sense 6: "To infect, imbue, impress, strike suddenly or strongly with some feeling or sentiment. Chiefly in pa. pple. ME.", the quotation for which is still negative: "Wit strang dred he smiton was." Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted love or hate? boronia 12/05/03 05:48 PM Re: love or hate? wwh 12/05/03 06:19 PM Re: love or hate? Zed 12/05/03 07:34 PM Re: love or hate? wwh 12/05/03 08:35 PM Re: love or hate? Faldage 12/05/03 11:19 PM Re: love or hate? Jackie 12/06/03 04:01 AM Re: love or hate? Jenet 12/06/03 07:56 AM smutty smooching Jenet 12/06/03 07:59 AM Re: smutty smooching consuelo 12/06/03 12:17 PM Re: love or hate? wwh 12/06/03 01:53 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,344 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 782 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 20 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,546 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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