Meanings
adjectivestage-stricken (comparative more stage-stricken, superlative most stage-stricken)
comparative more stage-stricken · superlative most stage-stricken
- rareentertainmentSynonym of stagestruck.
[T]hey entertained themselves […] with a recitation by plump little stage-stricken Ensign Puddock, who, in "thpite of hith lithp," gave rather spirited imitations of some of the players—[…]
1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Mr. Mervyn in His Inn”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 36Synonyms: stagestruck
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of stagestruck.
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