puppy love

noun

Definition of puppy lovenext
as in calf-love

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Recent Examples of puppy love Queen Camilla showed a little puppy love with a designer accessory at a meaningful charity appearance on February 4. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 4 Feb. 2026 Dog owner Keryn Hanifan, 28, of South Shore, Massachusetts, shared the sweet clip on TikTok (@kerynhanifan) to highlight what an amazing difference a little puppy love can make. — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 There will be no puppy love for Ghislaine Maxwell at her new home. — Rich Schapiro, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025 Fans watched the couple go from puppy love to the real deal when Cory proposed during the show’s May 1998 season 5 finale. — Angela Andaloro, People.com, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for puppy love
Recent Examples of Synonyms for puppy love
  1. flirtation
  2. entanglement
Noun
  • Just look at the discourse surrounding LSU and Kiffin's recruiting efforts from Tiger fans and beat writers following the news of Royal's flip to Florida and Hudson's open flirtation with Nebraska.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Past albums have varied between melodic indie rock, jagged art rock, and even flirtations with hardcore.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of flirtation
Noun
  • Trump successfully tapped into these grievances by promising to scale back international entanglements and bring back factories and manufacturing jobs.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Scientists at the University of Oxford developed a quantum network using two different atoms, strontium and calcium, and achieved a record entanglement time of 10 seconds.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of entanglement

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