lothario

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Lothario¹

  • /loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/

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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.

noun Lotharios · lothario

  1. A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women. High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.

    Similar: lady-killer, Casanova, benedick, cad, drabber, fuck boy, fuck-boy, fuckboy, gallant, goat, he-bitch, himbo

lothario²

noun lotharios

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Lothario

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noun seducer

Españolseductor
中文好色之徒 hàosèzhītú
Portuguêssedutor
Françaiscoureur de jupons, don Juan
DeutschDon Juan, Schürzenjäger
Русскийловела́с lovelás, бабник babnik

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@misc{lothario_2026,
  title = {lothario},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lothario},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}