skirt chaser

English

Alternative forms

• skirt-chaser

Noun

skirt chaser (plural skirt chasers)

1. (idiomatic) A man with amorous intentions who habitually seeks out female companionship.
   • 1943 July 19, "The New Pictures," Time:

     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," New York Times (retrieved 27 Oct 2012):

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

Synonyms

• womanizer
• See also Wikisaurus:libertine

Translations

man who seeks out female companionship

• Danish: skørtejæger (da)
• German: Schürzenjäger (de) m

• Slovak: sukničkár (sk)