Loverman
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 flicks after Valentino died.""
- 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."
- 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?"
Example
More examples"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 flicks after Valentino died.""
Etymology
From lover + man.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.