LADY-KILLER

  

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LADY-KILLER

Definition: LADY-KILLER

LADY-KILLER

Noun

1. A gallant who captivates the hearts of women.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LADY-KILLER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

 

Commercial Usage: LADY-KILLER

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lady-Killer ((Black Dagger Mystery Series)) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LADY-KILLER

Language Translations for "LADY-KILLER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

夫人凶手. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

naistenhurmaaja. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

色事師 , すき焼き (Japanese beef meal, philanderer, sukiyaki), 女誑し (Don Juan, guy who knows how to play the ladies, philanderer, skillful playboy), 女垂らし (Don Juan, guy who knows how to play the ladies, philanderer, skillful playboy), 女殺し (murderer of women). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すけ"まし (philanderer), お"なたらし (Don Juan, guy who knows how to play the ladies, philanderer, skillful playboy), お"な"ろし (murderer of women), いろ"とし. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

숙녀 살인자. (various references)

   

Manx

  

myrneen ny mreih. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ady-killerlay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

galanteador (coquet, dangler, do-naught, good-for-nothing, kittenish, laggard, masher, philanderer, wooer), conquistador (conqueror, lothario, masher, playboy, sheik, victor, winner). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сердцеед (heart-throb, ladykiller). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

anh ch ng nổi tiếng l đ o hoa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LADY-KILLER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-k-l-l-l-r-y"

-2 letters: ladylike, lardlike.

-3 letters: dallier, diallel, dialler, ideally, lairdly, leakily, rallied, raylike, readily.

-4 letters: aerily, allied, aridly, ariled, daiker, darkle, darkly, dearly, derail, dialer, direly, killed, killer, ladler, laired, lakier, lalled, larked, leally, likely, railed, rallye, really, redial, relaid, ridley, rilled.

-5 letters: aider, ailed, aired, alder, alike, alkyd, alkyl, alley, allyl, ariel, daily, dairy, dally.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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