Lover man

Kimi-chan lights a match for the despondent heroine and explains why it is not acceptable to be infatuated with Charlie Chaplin: "Nobody's going to be crazy about a guy who's not a loverman." Kimi-chan then adds her own illustration of the ideal loverman (iro otoko): "Even I stopped going to the flicks after Valentino died."

Spencer. The newcomer. The slender, dark-haired loverman.

When Corbyn finally gave a speech – in a stunning piece of billing that could only happen at Glastonbury, he appeared between hip-hop duo Run the Jewels and Southampton’s foremost R&B loverman Craig David – the crowd brought the entire area around the Pyramid stage to a standstill

This can cause some strange changes. I've seen lovermen go weird. Romeos who broke and balled the ladies outside, lovesickness turns them into lisping, stubble-chinned, prison-yard queens.

In his autobiography, the notorious Venetian loverman Giacomo Casanova shocked his peers by giving lurid accounts of the sex he'd had with 122 women.

As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."

Could it be mere coincidence, for instance, that Billie Holiday's line of lovermen exhibited a sadistic streak both in her lyrics and in her life?

I tell the Footscray social worker hey I saw your ex outside the supermarket with her new loverman and they gave me a fiver, but maybe I shouldn't have said it, ...