typee

1. GuyanauncountableIntense lovesickness; infatuation, limerence.

   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, Ont.: Learning Improvement Centre, published March 1998, →ISBN, page 205

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   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, Guyana: Guyana National Newspaper, →OCLC, page 6

   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 27, Helena Martin, “1958 James Street, Albouystown”, in Walk wit’ Me … All ova Guyana: Memoir of Helena Martin, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 148

plural Typees

1. obsoleteA member of the Tai-pi people of Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia.