| 单词 | woman-killer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswoman-killer woman-killer n. (a) a person, typically a man, who kills a woman or women; (b) = ladykiller n. at lady n. Compounds 2e. ΘΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction > seducer seducera1616 woman-killer1654 cousin1694 betrayer1766 ladykiller1769 Lovelace1773 Don Juan1847 wolf1847 Casanova1928 homme fatal1935 1654 tr. G. B. Manzini Manzinie his Exquisite Academicall Disc. ii. 10 This glorious woman-killer return'd from a field, where hee got himselfe more shame by his flight, then he did his Countrey advantage by his victory. 1774 Assignation I. ix. 54 We shall see the self-satisfied Edmond Harcourt, with that air of agreeable effrontery and assuming negligence, fancy himself a perfect woman-killer. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxix. 252 Having a firm conviction in his own mind that he was a woman-killer and destined to conquer. 1940 N. Davis in O. Penzler Black Lizard Big Bk. of Pulps (2007) 643/1 You're a dirty woman-killer. She got sassy with you and you picked up that knife and stuck it in her throat. 1961 I. Fleming Thunderball (1963) ii. 23 The man was extremely handsome—a dark bronzed woman-killer with a neat moustache. 2008 Daily Record (Nexis) 24 July 26 (headline) Dumped by his wife for a lesbian lover, he became a woman killer. < as lemmas |
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