Lecher
//ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)// name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
"The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen."
- 2 man with strong sexual desires wordnet
Verb
- 1 To practice lewdness.
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"It leads a lecher and a thief to soon become a man of the cloth."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
Americanized German surname, from Löcher, Locher.
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