gandermooner
gandermooner noun: a man who pursues other women during the later months of his partner's pregnancy.
Noun
gandermooner (plural gandermooners)
- A man who pursues other women during the later months of his partner's pregnancy.
- I would have disguised myself as a sailor, a dissolute parson or a gandermooner, and lurked in the places where such people congregate, waiting to be approached.1961, Robertson Davies, The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose, page 190
- He was looking anything but the happy gandermooner of the night before. It seemed that his wife was nigh on her time, and that she and the midwife were both seeing portents and she wanted a parson standing by, for her ease of mind: […]1969, Richard Dohrman, The Last of the Maidens, page 207
Forms of gandermooner
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Questions about gandermooner
- What does gandermooner mean?
- Gandermooner means a man who pursues other women during the later months of his partner's pregnancy.
- What part of speech is gandermooner?
- Gandermooner is a noun.
- What is the plural of gandermooner?
- The plural of gandermooner is gandermooners.
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