skirt chaser

See also: skirt-chaser

English

Alternative forms

• skirt-chaser

Pronunciation

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Noun

skirt chaser (plural skirt chasers)

1. (idiomatic) A man with amorous intentions who habitually seeks out female companionship.

   Synonyms: womanizer; see also Thesaurus:libertine

   • 1943 July 19, “The New Pictures”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 December 2008:

     Heaven Can Wait (20th Century-Fox) is a lengthy but frequently funny life history of an old New York skirt chaser (Don Ameche) from his brownstone puberty to his overripe old age.

   • 1958, Robert Bloch, That Hell-Bound Train:

     That was the train the drunks and the sinners rode—the gambling men and the grifters, the big-time spenders, the skirt-chasers, and all the jolly crew.

   • 2008 March 31, Anand Giridharadas, “Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Social Limits”, in New York Times‎^[2], retrieved 27 October 2012:

     He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time.

Translations

man who seeks out female companionship

• Catalan: femeller m, home doner m
• Czech: sukničkář (cs) m
• Danish: skørtejæger
• Dutch: rokkenjager (nl)
• Esperanto: jupĉasanto, donjuano
• Finnish: hameheikki (dialectal); naistenmies (fi)
• French: coureur de jupons (fr) m
• German: Schürzenjäger (de) m
• Hungarian: szoknyavadász (hu)
• Latin: femellarius m, mulierarius m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjørtejeger (no) m

  Nynorsk: skjørtejeger m

• Polish: bawidamek (pl) m
• Portuguese: rabo de saia (pt) m
• Slovak: sukničkár