permasingle
Consistently unsuccessful at courtship; protractedly single.
Adjective
- Consistently unsuccessful at courtship; protractedly single.
- […] I think he's right because all the nice guys I know are permasingle." Permasingle? Is that like permafrost? "That's what I call anyone who hasn't had a steady girlfriend or boyfriend for years." - 2000, Philip...
- Of course, I hid my depression extremely well – my unhappiness with my body and my perma-single status only ever came out in public as a self-deprecating joke, and I was good enough at those that people usually laughed...
- One of the awkward things about being permasingle is how it makes other people feel bad for you. - 2017, Kendra Fortmeyer, Hole in the Middle:
Origin
From perma- + single.