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lothario

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Lothario (noun) means a man mainly interested in seducing women.

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A man mainly interested in seducing women.
"So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity." — Zoe Williams, ‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age (2023)
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Etymology

Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.

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What is the meaning of lothario?
"lothario" (noun) means a man mainly interested in seducing women.
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Other words for "lothario" include romeo, cad, playboy, philanderer, loverboy, player.

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