tomcatting
Pursuing many lovers
Tomcatting is pursuing casual sexual encounters, typically said of men who are promiscuous or unfaithful.
The word comes from the male cat's reputation for roaming in search of mates: He spent his twenties tomcatting around the city.
The tone is usually disapproving or ruefully self-aware.
Pursuing casual affairs repeatedly
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
- flirtingPlayfully showing romantic interest
cheating · adultery · playboy · lothario · two-timing · unfaithfulness · dalliance · libertine
Evening entertainment culture
- revelryNoisy, lively celebration
- partyingSocial revelry in progress
- drinkingLiquid consumption act
- gallivantingRoaming for pleasure
prowling · binge · spree · hell-raising · debauchery · merrymaking · on the town · painting the town
Roam stealthily
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- strayingDeparting from course
- rovingMoving from place to place
- alley catHomeless urban feline
streetwise · territorial · nocturnal · skulking · sneaking out · slinking · catting around · on the prowl
womanizing
Pursuing casual affairs repeatedly
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- infidelityDisloyalty to a partner
- seductionEnticing someone romantically
flirting · cheating · adultery · playboy · lothario · two-timing · unfaithfulness · dalliance · libertine · rake
nightlife
Evening entertainment culture
gallivanting · prowling · binge · spree · hell-raising · debauchery · merrymaking · on the town · painting the town · wild oats
prowl
Roam stealthily
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
- strayingDeparting from course
- rovingMoving from place to place
alley cat · streetwise · territorial · nocturnal · skulking · sneaking out · slinking · catting around · on the prowl · restless
- infidelityadultery, affair, adulteress, cheating, cheater
- promiscuitypromiscuity, sleeping around, casual sex, hookups, one-night stands
tomcattingfidelity
Loyalty or exactness
faithfulness · monogamy · devotion · constancy · commitment
tomcattingcelibacy
Abstaining from intimate relations
chastity · abstinence · continence · self-restraint · asceticism
tomcattingsettling down
Becoming stable and rooted
domesticity · nesting · committed relationship · staying home · matrimony