womanizer
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English womanizer
From womanize + -er (agent noun).
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[edit]womanizer (plural womanizers) (American and Oxford British spelling)
- A man who habitually flirts with and seduces, or attempts to seduce, women.
- Synonyms: bounder, cad, Casanova, lady's man, lecher, Lothario, philanderer, playboy, player, rake, Romeo, skirt chaser, wencher
- 1987 May 3, William Safire, “ON LANGUAGE; Vamping Till Ready”, in The New York Times[1]:
- A couple of months ago, in a piece about the language of self-involvement, I quoted a girlfriend of Woody Allen as having described the actor as “very much of a womanizer, very self-involved”.
- 2012 November 27, Rachel Hills, “No, Not Every Guy Wants to be a Player”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- Sometimes the stereotype is framed as light and cheeky—think the “boys will be boys” mentality exemplified by sitcom womanizers such as How I Met Your Mother's Barney Stinson or Two and a Half Men's Charlie Harper.
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