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fancy man
a. A man who is fancied; a sweetheart.
b. pl. = the fancy (see fancy n. 12 b).
c. slang. A man who lives upon the earnings of a prostitute.
a.1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xliii, One day the sergeant was the fancy man, and the next day it was Tom. 1847–78Halliwell s.v. Fancy, A sweetheart is still called a fancy-man.
b.1847–8H. Miller First Impr. xiv. (1857) 247, I should have succeeded in astonishing the ‘fancy-men’. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. x. 213 Fancy-men, patrons of the cock-pit and the ring.
c.1811Lex. Balatron., Fancy man, a man kept by a lady for secret services. 1818‘A. Burton’ Adv. Johnny Newcome iii. 154 The Sweepers e'en, were fancy men! 1821P. Egan Tom & Jerry 42 Although One of the Fancy, he was not a fancy-man. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 178 The women of the town buy of me..for themselves and their fancy men. 1890Spectator 6 Dec. 825/2 They will bear from the ‘fancy-man’ any usage, however brutal. 1891T. Hardy Tess III. v. xli. 26 Though your fancy-man was so up about it. 1922Joyce Ulysses 48 Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins. 1960D. Lessing In Pursuit of English vi. 217 My mother's married that fancy man and he's already started to treat her bad. 1966B. Naughton Alfie i. 12 You won't get one husband in ten feels any thanks to the wife's fancy man for the happiness he brings to the marriage. |