What Is Crushear?
4.0BRAINROT SCOREcrushear Informal Spanish verb, mostly among young speakers, meaning to have a crush on someone: to feel a romantic attraction, often unspoken or unrequited ("le estoy crusheando", "ando crushing"). It is built on the borrowed noun "crush" plus the verb ending "-ear". It has no normative backing in dictionaries of record.
Origin:Cultura Colectiva (11 Aug 2026) defines "crush" as the person one feels intense, often unrequited, romantic attraction for, notes that the RAE records it as a raw foreign word, and says derived verb forms such as "le estoy crusheando" circulate in informal Spanish among young people and are not normative. The romantic sense of English "crush" is first recorded in 1884. The verb "crushear" itself has no dated first use found yet.
First Seen:Unknown (from English "crush"; romantic sense of the noun recorded in 1884; no dated first use of the Spanish verb found yet)
Peak Era:2020s
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Using It Correctly In Context)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"«Hace meses que lo estoy crusheando y no me animo a decirle nada», dijo ella."
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