A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
Used as a substitute name for any man who is acting like a lover, a kind of apprentice Don Juan. The allusion is obviously to Shakespeare’s character in Romeo and Juliet ‘I’ve had enough of your carrying on, Romeo,’ says a woman to a man who is flirting with one of her employees, in The Ginger Man, by J.P.Donleavy.
In Laura, by Vera Caspary, one man addresses another as Romeo when he sees him embracing his fiancée. War Brides, by Lois Battle, has an Australian woman saying to an American: ‘Back off, Romeo’ when he tries to undress her.
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