loverman

English

Alternative forms

• lover-man
• lover man

Etymology

lover +‎ man

Noun

loverman (plural lovermen)

1. A man who is skilled at making love.
   • 2009, Miriam Rom Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, →ISBN:

     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."

   • 2014, Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby, The Silent History, →ISBN, page 247:

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

   • 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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

2. A man who has sex with many women; player.
   • 2001, Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, Keith D. Miller, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, page 486:

     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.

   • 2004, Belinda Jones, On the Road to Mr Right, →ISBN, page 119:

     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.

   • 2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:

     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.
   • 1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446:

     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?

   • 2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, →ISBN, page 166:

     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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