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loverman

noun

Etymology

From lover + man.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as loverman — “lover + man”

Definitions

  1. A man who is skilled at making love.

    • Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman.

  2. A man who has sex with many women

    A man who has sex with many women; player.

    • This can cause some strange changes. I've seen lovermen go weird. Romeos who broke and balled the ladies outside, lovesickness turns them into lisping, stubble-chinned, prison-yard queens.
    • In his autobiography, the notorious Venetian loverman Giacomo Casanova shocked his peers by giving lurid accounts of the sex he'd had with 122 women.
    • As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."

  3. A male sexual partner.

    • Could it be mere coincidence, for instance, that Billie Holiday's line of lovermen exhibited a sadistic streak both in her lyrics and in her life?
    • I tell the Footscray social worker hey I saw your ex outside the supermarket with her new loverman and they gave me a fiver, but maybe I shouldn't have said it, ...

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA