Meanings
plural lover-men
- alternativeAlternative form of loverman.
... the lover-men who want their bodies and the salesmen who want their money.
1982, John Gordon, The Myth of the Monstrous Male, and Other Feminist Fables, page 703 more examples
Piṅgalā said: “O, observe the extent of my fantasy, by which I desire the satisfaction of sexual cravings from insignificant lover-men, I am a person whose psyche is not under control, the fool that I am.
2011, Michael Beloved, Uddhava Gita English, →ISBNFor example, he figured he could pass for a man of forty-five (with his teeth in); that he was a popular man around the town and that the pools win had made him more popular; that he had been a good and loving father to all his children, even Desmond; that his Austin Princess was a gal-magnet and that the powers of cow-cock soup had made him a formidable lover-man once again.
2013, Sylvester Young, MORE THAN A GAME: A Story About Football and other Stuff, →ISBNAlways making notes to myself I am, but never reading the damn things back. Which is why I am always on the floor, my table of a waiter of a lover-man, mine.
2013, Samuel Penman, The Flea Circus, →ISBN, page 17
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