When Professor Archibald Henderson titled his definitive biography of George Bernard Shaw Playboy and Prophet, he probably came closer to using the word Playboy as we conceive it than is common today. Certainly, he did not mean that the highly prolific playwright-critic was an all-play-no-work sybarite.

sybarite (n) : a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary] – source: The Playboy Philosophy