metrosexual

English

Etymology

Portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual.

Noun

metrosexual (plural metrosexuals)

1. A man concerned with personal appearance, such as personal grooming, fashion, and aesthetics in general; who may or may not be concerned with self-indulgence and money. (Usually urban, heterosexual, often affluent).
2. A man who is seen, sociologically, as having attributes common to homosexuals, but is in fact heterosexual.

Synonyms

• boulevardier
• dandy - (19th Century ?)
• fop - (19th Century ?)
• dude, dood (archaic)
• man about town
• masher (archaic)

Translations

A man concerned with personal appearance

Bulgarian: метросексуален Catalan: metrosexual (ca) Chinese: 都市美男 (literally: metropolitan handsome men) Czech: metrosexuál (cs) Danish: metrosexuel (da) Dutch: metroseksueel (nl) Esperanto: metroseksulo Estonian: metroseksuaal Finnish: metroseksuaali (fi), hienostelija (fi), keikari (fi) French: métrosexuel (fr) German: metrosexuell (de) Hebrew: מטרוסקסואל

Hungarian: metroszexuális Italian: metrosessuale Lithuanian: metroseksualas Piedmontese: gadan Polish: metroseksualny Portuguese: metrosexual (pt) Romanian: metrosexual (ro) Russian: метросексуал Serbian: метросексуалан Spanish: metrosexual (es) Swedish: metrosexuell (sv) Turkish: metroseksüel (tr)

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Italian: vitellone m. This doesn't seem to be correct: see my comment on the discussion page - Paul G

See also

• ambisexual
• gender-bender
• unisex
• machosexual
• Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year

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Catalan

Noun

metrosexual m. (plural metrosexuals)

1. metrosexual