promiscuous:
1. Characterized by a lack of discrimination in the choice of sexual partners.SYNONYMS: abandoned; bowlegged ; crackish ; debauched; dissipated ; dissolute ; easy; fast; horizontally-accessible ; immoral ; loose ; indiscriminate; indiscriminately sexually active ; indiscriminating; lascivious ; lax; lecherous ; libertine ; licentious ; loose-bodied ; loose-gowmed; loose-hilted ; loose-legged ; of easy-virtue ; oversexed ; profligate ; promiscuous; scankie ; sexually easy; sexually loose ; skanky ; unbridled; unchaste; undiscriminating; unrestrained; wanton ; whorish ; wild.
2. Engaging in sexual-intercourse indiscriminately or with many persons.
3. To be promiscuous , to search promiscuously for sexual partners or to engage in indiscriminate sexual activity.
SYNONYMS: cat-around ; chippy-around ; fan-one's-ass ; fan-one's-pussy ; fart-around ; fool around; fuck-around ; fuzz-around ; go-wenching ; go-womanizing ; horse-around ; hump-'em-and-dump-'em ; jack-around ; jazz-around ; mess-about ; mess-around ; monkey-about ; muck-around ; perv-about ; perv-around ; philander ; plant the some (wild) oats; play around; play-games-with ; play-the-field ; play-checkers ; put-it-about ; screw-around ; scutz-around ; shoot-the-thrills; sleep-around ; sow-one's-wild-oats ; tomcat ; tomcating ; tramp ; whore .
See also: philanderer ; playgirl .
QUOTES:
(1) Rajah (Nigel de Brulier) and Tira (Mae West) in I'm no Angel (1933):
-- Rajah: ' I see a wonderful future. I see a man in your life .'
-- Tira: ' What, only one? '
(2) Tira (Mae West) and her maid in I'm No Angel (1933):
-- Maid: ' I was under the impression you were a one-man woman .'
-- Tira: ' I am. One man at a time .'
(3) Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933): ' I'm no angel but I've spread my wings a bit .'
(4) Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) and Tira (Mae West) in I'm No Angel (1933):
-- Jack: ' If only I could trust you .'
-- Tira: ' Hundreds have .'
(5) Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) and Lady Lou (Mae West) in She Done Him Wrong (1933):
-- Captain: ' Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy? '
-- Lady Lou: ' Sure, lots of times .'
(6) Ruby Carter's (Mae West) answer to a group of admirers in Belle of the Nineties (1934):
-- Admirer: ' May we ask what types of men you prefer? '
-- Ruby Carter: ' Just two: domestic and foreign .'
(7) Cleo Borden (Mae West) in Goin' to Town (1935):
-- Cloe: ' For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived .'
-- Friend: ' You mean to say you reformed? '
-- Cleo: ' No, I got over being ashamed .'
(8) Mavis Arden (Mae West) in Go West, Young Man (1936): ' Men are my life .'
(9) Knobby (Larry Mintz), the barman, to Bernice (Whoopi Goldberg) about a womanizer who frequented his bar in Burglar (1987): ' The guy had-more-ass-than-a-toilet-seat .'
(10) Barmaid Sal (Lynnie Godfrey) to her friend V.I. Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) who has Murray troubles in V.I. Warshawski (1991): 'The man is a slut . We know this. Have libido , will travel .'
(11) Carrie/Caroline (Andie MacDowell) telling Charles (Hugh Grant) that she's had 33 lovers in her life (he was # 32) in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1993): ' So, there you go. Less than Madonna and more than Princess Di, I hope .'
(12) John Boys (James LeGros) to his promiscuous girlfriend Jessica (Lisa Zane) in Floundering (1994): ' Sex is like a handshake to you .'
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