lecher
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) , from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”). More at lick.
Pronunciation
Noun
lecher (plural lechers)
- A lecherous person.
- 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202:
- The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:libertine
Derived terms
Translations
a lecherous person
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Verb
lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)
- To practice lewdness.
Further reading
- “lecher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “lecher”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “lecher”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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