Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names. · The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
A very handsome, genetically gifted and sexually active man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century. The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan and California slang.
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