stage-stricken
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
stage-stricken (comparative more stage-stricken, superlative most stage-stricken)
- (theater, rare) Synonym of stagestruck
- 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 36:
- [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— [...]