fancy mann.
1. A man who is fancied; a sweetheart.
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the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specific male sweetheart
fancy man1834
querido1898
boyfriend1906
boyf1990
mi'jito1990
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful III. xiv. 244 One day the sergeant was the fancy man, and the next day it was Tom.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words at Fancy, A sweetheart is still called a fancy-man.
2. pl. = the fancy at fancy n. 12.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > follower of boxing
the fancy1807
fancy man1847
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiv. 273, I would have succeeded in astonishing the ‘fancy-men’.
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude x. 213 Fancy-men, patrons of the cock-pit and the ring.
3. slang. A man who lives upon the earnings of a prostitute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > illicit male lover
leman1297
concubinec1430
lover1611
fancy man1811
other man1886
other guy1953
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > living on earnings of prostitute > man who
jock-gagger1809
fancy man1811
fancy-bloke1846
ponce1859
John1906
souteneur1906
Johnson1954
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Fancy man, a man kept by a lady for secret services.
1818 ‘A. Burton’ Adventures Johnny Newcome iii. 154 The Sweepers e'en, were fancy men!
1821 P. Egan Tom & Jerry 42 Although One of the Fancy, he was not a fancy-man.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 178/1 The women of the town buy of me..for themselves and their fancy men.
1890 Spectator 6 Dec. 825/2 They will bear from the ‘fancy-man’ any usage, however brutal.
1891 T. Hardy Tess III. xli. 26 Though your fancy-man was so up about it.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. iii. [Proteus] 47 Her fancyman is treating two Royal Dublins.
1960 D. Lessing In Pursuit of Eng. vi. 217 My mother's married that fancy man and he's already started to treat her bad.
1966 B. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2013).
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