Lothario en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/
- (Canada) audio
Etymology
Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.
Meanings
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A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.
1886, Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties […], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published 1899, →OCLC:High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Schools and Schoolmasters”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 437:So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.
2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| lothario | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Lotharios | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
man ho · playboy · fuck boy · adulterer · manwhore · rakehell · salty dog · stud · drabber · satyr · chamberer · tomcat · lady-killer · man whore · Romeo · cad · rake · rantipole · wanton · bed-hopper · libertine · whoremonger · horndog · fornicator · satyriasist · philanderer · roué · fuckboy · rizzler · Casanova · satyromaniac · rolling stone · striker · gallant · swordsman · player · pimp · loverboy · sleaze · he-bitch · shag bandit · gallant · voluptuary · philanderer · rake · seducer · hood rat · goat · debauchee · carpetmonger · homme fatal · loverman · muttonmonger · player · manslut · benedick · debaucher · rover · stringer · lewdster · man-whore · lecher · rip · himbo · smell-smock · Pepe Le Pew · fuck-boy · tart
Translations (22)
mk заве́дувач (seducer) · mk донжуа́н (seducer) · ru ловела́с (seducer) · nl rokkenjager (seducer) · de Don Juan (seducer) · pl uwodziciel (seducer) · pl casanova (seducer) · nl verleider (seducer) · cmn 好色之徒 (seducer) · cs lamač dívčích srdcí (seducer) · mk за́водник (seducer) · mk же́нкар (seducer) · es seductor (seducer) · cs svůdník (seducer) · la femellarius (seducer) · ru бабник (seducer) · fr coureur de jupons (seducer) · fr don Juan (seducer) · la mulierarius (seducer) · pt sedutor (seducer) · fi naistenmies (seducer) · de Schürzenjäger (seducer)