Meecher
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A loiterer; One who goes where they do not belong and avoids what they should be doing
"She went straight into high-sterics, and no wonder; any Christian would, and a Christian Emmeline is, though a meecher from her cradle and will be to her casket."
- 1 Pronunciation spelling of meet you. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"As the Major entered I observed upon his person a kind of uprightness that no sober man ever had, varied with quick little steps sideways, for no good visible reason, and when he comes up to the counter he grabs it with both hands and says, ' How do—gla' meecher—hot, ain't it?"
Example
More examples"She went straight into high-sterics, and no wonder; any Christian would, and a Christian Emmeline is, though a meecher from her cradle and will be to her casket."
Etymology
From meech + -er.
Eye dialect
More for "meecher"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.