philander

philander
/fi lan"deuhr/, v.i.
(of a man) to make love with a woman one cannot or will not marry; carry on flirtations.
[1675-85; < Gk phílandros one who loves (of a woman, loving her husband); see PHILO-, ANDRO-; later used in fiction as a proper name for a lover, and appar. mistaken as "a man who loves"]
Syn. trifle, dally, womanize.

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