intercourser

Noun

intercourser (plural intercoursers)

1. (rare) Someone or something that engages in social or business intercourse.
   • When Congress in March 1809 abandoned the complete embargo and partial non-importation, and sub- stituted a complete ban on commercial intercourse with the French and British Empires, Schenck seized twenty intercoursers in 1809, and twenty-three in 1810.1941 November, Herbert Heaton, “Non-Importation, 1806–1812”, in The Journal of Economic History, volume 1, number 2
   • By this my Lady may judge what reasons I had to write what I did of the practising of the padri, amongst whom Mr. Jo. Ger[?ard] was by the gentleman precisely named to be one of the parties that was a chief intercourser.1980, Robert Cecil marquess of Salisbury, Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Most Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., &c. &c. &c
2. (derogatory, rare, sometimes) Someone who has sexual intercourse.
   • Thus, though he went with a procession of women, his behavior with them led him to see that "I am not an intercourser," a phrase which he then wore out until it lost its meaning1954, The Yearbook of Psychoanalysis, page 192
   • As Sartre himself put it, "I was more a masturbator than an 'intercourser' of women" (CA, p. 385).1986, Susan Rubin Suleiman, The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives, →ISBN