Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./NZ) a promiscuous male, thus attrib.

1903		Auckland Star 4 Nov. 11/4: ‘You know [...] Mrs Leitwin’s boudoir?’ [...] ‘I never penetrated to that apartment. I am not a boudoir man’.
1928		M. West Pleasure Man (1997) II i: Say, where’s that heavy lover on the bill? That big boudoir man.
1937		M. West Constant Sinner (1995) 107: [A] high yellow, a big boudoir man with lust in his eyes, loving up three brown-skinned women.
1983		Sydney Morning Herald 22 Sept. 14: I’m not much impressed by his [i.e. PM Bob Hawke] public breast-beating about being a reformed alcoholic and a boudoir bandicoot.
1987		Wkly Australian 16 May Mag. 5/2: [A] prominent Labor Party politician’s description of himself as a ‘bedroom bandicoot’.
1994		S. Maloney Stiff 195: [H]is natty bedroom-bandicoot face.
2000		Radio 2UE (Sydney) [radio] A talkback caller says the term ‘boudoir bandicoot’ was put into the Macquarie Dictionary after it was used against former Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

2. (US) an effeminate, poss. homosexual man.

1908

Evansville Jrnl (IL) 14 June 17/3: The boudoir man is never a Don Juan, but delights in feminizing himself by appearing in tight, corset-waisted garments, wide-flapping trousers and effeminate absurdities.