"loverman" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lover",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "lover + man",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From lover + man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lovermen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lovermen"
      },
      "expansion": "loverman (plural lovermen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Miriam Rom Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby, The Silent History, →ISBN, page 247:",
          "text": "Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who is skilled at making love."
      ],
      "id": "en-loverman-en-noun-3MC7YDnd",
      "links": [
        [
          "making love",
          "make love"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, Keith D. Miller, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, page 486:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Belinda Jones, On the Road to Mr Right, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:",
          "text": "As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to \"make nut come out your nose.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who has sex with many women; player."
      ],
      "id": "en-loverman-en-noun-15q0RPG-",
      "links": [
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 25 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 24 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 23 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, →ISBN, page 166:",
          "text": "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, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A male sexual partner."
      ],
      "id": "en-loverman-en-noun-PhW4CYRN",
      "links": [
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "partner",
          "partner"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "lover-man"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "lover man"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loverman"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lover",
        "3": "man"
      },
      "expansion": "lover + man",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From lover + man.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lovermen",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lovermen"
      },
      "expansion": "loverman (plural lovermen)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Miriam Rom Silverberg, Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett, Matthew Derby, The Silent History, →ISBN, page 247:",
          "text": "Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:",
          "text": "When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who is skilled at making love."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "making love",
          "make love"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Kevin Everod Quashie, R. Joyce Lausch, Keith D. Miller, New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, page 486:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Belinda Jones, On the Road to Mr Right, →ISBN, page 119:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 July, “Breakdown”, in Spin, page 104:",
          "text": "As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to \"make nut come out your nose.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who has sex with many women; player."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "player",
          "player"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Will Friedwald, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, →ISBN, page 446:",
          "text": "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?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Paddy O'Reilly, Peripheral Vision: Stories, →ISBN, page 166:",
          "text": "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, ...",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A male sexual partner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sexual",
          "sexual"
        ],
        [
          "partner",
          "partner"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lover-man"
    },
    {
      "word": "lover man"
    }
  ],
  "word": "loverman"
}