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1. A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
2. One fond of paying attention to ladies.
3. One who wooes; a lover; a suitor; in a bad sense, a seducer.
In the first sense it is by some orthoepists (as in Shakespeare) accented on the first syllable.
(01 Mar 1998)
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