seducer
nounEtymology From seduce + -er.
1
Someone who seduces, especially a man who seduces a woman.
- But Ted Farrell couldn't stop; that armful of active girl was too much for the wise precautions of a seducer. He kept panting, "Don't be a nark, Cora," while struggling to hold her down.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 170:
- Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.2020 April 2, Alex Kuczynski, “Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History”, in The New York Times:
- Related terms
- seductress