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loverman en · NOUN

Etymology

From lover + man.

Meanings

1. A man who is skilled at making love.
   • When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
   • Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman. 2014, Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby, The Silent History, →ISBN, page 247:
   • Kimi-chan lights a match for the despondent heroine and explains why it is not acceptable to be infatuated with Charlie Chaplin: "Nobody's going to be crazy about a guy who's not a loverman." Kimi-chan then adds her own illustration of the ideal loverman (iro otoko): "Even I stopped going to the flicks after Valentino died." 2009, Miriam Rom Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, →ISBN:
2. A man who has sex with many women; player.
   • 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. 2004, Belinda Jones, On the Road to Mr Right, →ISBN, page 119:
   • 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. 2001, Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, Keith D. Miller, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, page 486:
   • 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." 2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:
3. A male sexual partner.
   • 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, ... 2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, →ISBN, page 166:
   • 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? 1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446:

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