Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A man given to lechery.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To practise lewdness; indulge in lust.
  • noun A man given to lewdness; one who is grossly unchaste; a habitual libertine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit sexual relations with women; also called letch and lech.
  • intransitive verb To practice lewdness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A lecherous person (almost always male).
  • verb To practice lewdness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun man with strong sexual desires

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French lecheor, from lechier, to lick, to live in debauchery, of Germanic origin; see leigh- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor ("glutton, sensualist, libertine") , from lecher ("to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality").

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