Green’s Dictionary of Slang

obsessed with, esp. in a sexual sense.

1830		Lytton Paul Clifford II 43: Your charming niece [...] You do not know how struck I was with her.
1840		T. Haliburton Clockmaker III 37: How did you like them little angels, the dancin’ galls? you seemed [...] rather struck with them.
1880		E.J. Milliken ‘Cad’s Calendar’ in Punch Almanack n.p.: Want another new rig out, wuss luck, / Gurl at Boodle’s bar seems awful struck.
1885		Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Sept. 9/1: The officer, however, who is strangely ‘struck’ upon the outlaw’s sister, expresses himself as willing to take the priest’s word as a priest.
1886		N.Z. Observer and Free Lance (Auckland) 20 Mar. 23/1: Is he struck in that direction? Rather...
1892		‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ (Second Letter) in Punch 15 Oct. 169/3: I ’eard one call me saffron-faced sparrer, and jest as I thought ’er fair struck.
1899		J. Flynt Tramping with Tramps 238: I’m so dead struck on havin’ the pleasures of life.
1900		T. Dreiser Sister Carrie 477: I don’t like the actors in our company [...] They’re all struck on themselves.
1902		Bulletin Reciter 1880–1901 160: Jim got struck on Quigly’s girl.
1905		Sun. Times (Perth) 26 Feb. 4/7: Got struck on the hundredth girl, who tried very hard to be true to her affianced lover.
1913		Sport (Adelaide) 25 Jan. 11/1: They Say [...] That Sharkey L. and Snook A. are dead struck on the Ballarat tarts.
1928		N.I. White Amer. Negro Folk-Songs 327: [reported from Auburn, Ala., 1915–1916] The woman I love is struck on a married man.
1932		D.L. Sayers Have His Carcase 415: Why don’t you give them to that old woman that’s so struck on you?
1941		K. Tennant Battlers 96: He must be struck on a girl to carry wood for her.
1950		C. Harris Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 78: Ain’t all that struck on these Americans, what I see of ’em.
1956		‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 122: She was jazz-struck, film-struck, gangster-struck.
1960		J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 127: I can’t just go and take ’im away from them. They’re struck on ’im now.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 161: I’m not overstruck on that new cop.
1980		J.L. Gwaltney Drylongso 138: All these young people [...] are Cadillac crazy and money-struck!