typee

Noun

1. Intense lovesickness; infatuation, limerence.
   • The fact that stuck in my head, however, that the prettiest thing to one crow is another crow, a male monkey sees a female monkey the way Romeo had ‘typee’ for his Juliet. - 1976 June 27, Guyana Chronicle, Georgetown,...
   • Stephen continued to see more of Sarah, after the Black Friday riots. He had typee for her; she was constantly in his thoughts. - 1994 May, Bernard Heydorn, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, in Walk Good Guyana Boy, Newmarket,...
   • I played chasie (tag) with him and the other children in the yard, but I am certain Oswald never knew I had typee for him. The love affair was short lived, because we only lived there for a short time. - 2011 October...