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Another term for "cunt." This saying gained currency among visitors to Aint It Cool News' "The Zone," a forum created on internet geek Harry Knowles' popular website aintitcooldotcom. Since The Zone was meant to be a refuge from the mean-spirited TalkBacks giving voice to readers below every news item on the site, Knowles institued a system of "word replacement" in The Zone, whereby the easy insults such as "cunt" or "faggot" used by TalkBackers, when typed in The Zone would appear as kinder terms, such as (respectively) "gentleman" or "the one that I desire."
You stupid fucking gentleman!

After I went up on the handlebars of my mate's bike, I felt like a right gentleman.
by Lawrence Heimann October 3, 2006
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Here is what I find interesting about this word. It's meaning keeps changing over time, effectively downgrading the expectations of a gentleman to reflect societies changing expectations (lowering expectations).

The first use and meaning of "gentleman" is number 1 below, which is completely obsolete and out of use for about 200 years.

Numbers 2 through 4 are still in use with older generations today, but are foreign concepts to young people under 30 IMO.

People under 30 today don't (IMO) even know what a gentleman is, but the word still exists and the Andrew Dice Clay joke about it reflects a funny, and possibly realistic new standard of what a young gentleman is today. It's sad, but also funny too. May as well enjoy the laughs where we can.

1) A man who is gentry, nobility (but not royalty), upperclass.

2) A civilized, educated, sensitive, well-mannered man AND he has high social standing. That's a high standard. Probably the standard back in the days of my great grandparents and before.

3) Since lowered to mean any of the qualities of number 2, but no longer requires all of them.

4) A man of good behavior who is considerate of others. This is the definition my grandmother taught me.

5) A modern "gentleman" today is (as the trend continues) held to a lower, ever more modest standard than before.

I'll give a couple examples of a modern day young "gentleman".
Examples of number 5 type modern "gentleman":

Andrew Dice Clay joked that a modern day gentleman is a man who takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

My girlfriend and I joke that a gentleman always applies lube before fucking his GF in her ass (with or without her consent), and before he accidentally chocks her aka rodeos her.

I'm a mix of old school and modern gentleman. I'm to kind to slap a woman's face or breasts. The idea of such a thing apalls me because it could injure her, and hitting those areas is off limits, even for fun. However, I do love slapping her ass good and hard (with my hand). If she screams and cries a little, that's a great aphrodisiac, but no woman ever got injured from a hand slap on the bottom.

The expectations of gentleman today are so low that I can be a modern day gentleman and an old school jerk simultaneously.

This is all a reflection of society's values in decline, IMO. Such that women my own age think (and tell me) I'm slightly a jerk, while younger women think (and tell me) I'm sweet (i.e. - a gentleman). I treat women exactly the same, regardless of their age. At least until the young women start acting appreciative of my "gentlemanly" ways. At that point I probably do treat them better because they treat me better.

From the point of view of young women, I can see their point. Compared to the typical young male brutes today, I am relatively a gentleman. Even though by old school standards, I'm a bit of a jerk.

The word "gentleman" is in decline along with the rest of society's values. Try to see the irony and humor in things because that makes life easier.
by CBthree July 26, 2009
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A gentleman supports his wife or gf in public at all cost even though she may be wrong
Jake taught me a gentleman should respect a girl .. even to the point of buying her lunch.
by Zhen Wan August 17, 2017
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A man who shaves his genetalia for his significant other.
Becky: So, I went to go suck Dave's cock and he had shaved it, AND his balls, he's such a gentleman.
by meowmix1337 June 11, 2016
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(noun) (plural = gentlemen) A primitive form of man, more evolved than Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon but too naive to survive in modern times.

Gentlemen were mostly wiped out by feminism in the 1980s and 1990s and replaced by modern man. The inherent weakness of gentlemen was their failure to recognise women as competition. They therefore wasted significant amounts of energy pandering to the female sex and were exploited at every opportunity by the latter.
She says “you’re such a gentleman”

She thinks “you doormat; I wonder how much free food, alcohol and entertainment I can get out of you”
by Reiki Master May 22, 2005
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A word mostly used in the upper echelons of the UK Soulful House music scene. The word is generally used to place the individual on a pedestal and is generally used as a statement to describe a person's superiority within the music scene. A soulful house music producer that makes beautiful songs is generally referred to as a Gentleman, whereas the music producer that makes instrumental tracks without using live instruments is perceived at the lower end of class.
"have you heard that song by so and so, a proper gentleman's song that is mate." (these songs are generally bland vocal songs with lots of live instruments used to send the listener to sleep)
by LondonTruth1234 October 19, 2018
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a man who wears fancy socks
Looks at his purple plaid socks... jonathan must be a gentleman
by wallstquant March 13, 2009
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