loverman

Noun

loverman (plural lovermen)

1. A man who is skilled at making love.
   • 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...2009, Miriam Rom Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, →ISBN
   • Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman.2014, Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby, The Silent History, →ISBN, page 247
2. A man who has sex with many women; player.
   • 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.2001, Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, Keith D. Miller, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, page 486
   • 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.2004, Belinda Jones, On the Road to Mr Right, →ISBN, page 119
3. A male sexual partner.
   • 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?1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446
   • 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, ...2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, →ISBN, page 166