Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man given to lechery.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man given to lewdness; one who is grossly unchaste; a habitual libertine.
- To practise lewdness; indulge in lust.
Wiktionary
- n. A lecherous person (almost always male).
- v. To practice lewdness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. 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 andlech . - v. To practice lewdness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. man with strong sexual desires
Etymologies
- From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor ("glutton, sensualist, libertine") , from lecher ("to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French lecheor, from lechier, to lick, to live in debauchery, of Germanic origin; see leigh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual.”
London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
“Of the world's ample types of miscreant — the hypocrite, the lecher, the glutton, the miser, the charlatan and many others — my preference is overwhelmingly for the charlatan.”
The Wall Street Journal: Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
“June 29th, 2009 4: 11 pm ET another lecher .... kudos America ... you really know how to pick 'em”
“In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," the narrator describes himself as an "idiotic old lecher" who is "leaving two children to follow an obvious gold digger to corrupt Europe.”
“She is gray and scaly and trusting some lecher more than she trusts Dick.”
“Unfortunately it's not against the law to be an old lecher.”
The Guardian: Let's keep womanisers out of office | Viv Groskop
“He was a liar and a lecher, and his writings about Africa are laden with a kind of me-bwana–you-noble-savage colonialism that does not wear well.”
“Osborne then escalated it like a sad lecher who takes every joking comment seriously.”
The Guardian: This week: Sathya Sai Baba, George Osborne, Wayne Rooney
“Darrell Hammond played Bill Clinton as lecher in chief.”
“And that was when the elemental orator named the herds as they passed, the epic poet, the voyeur, the lecher.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lecher’.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Unsavory characters
absconder, aretaloger, arriviste, avaunter, bamboozler, bandit, banger, barbarian, barmecide, barrator, beldam, blatherskite and 190 more...
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scoundrels and bastards
already several of these lists, but I wanted my own
varlet, scoundrel, slubberdegullion, bastard, hooligan, boor, churl, thug, cad, ne'er-do-well, miscreant, minx and 85 more...
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Boys I wouldn't go out with
As requested by bilby - http://wordie.org/lists/11872
clem, george, osama, adolph, dick, chewbacca, little willy, satan, santa claus, myself, chuck, lucifer and 52 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Portnoy's Complaint
Words gathered while reading Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth.
bonditt, goy, kishkas, goyische, shkotzim, if-onlying, pishachs, schvartze, milchiks, flaishedigeh, galvanic, chazerai and 123 more...
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Fun Insults
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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stun the opposition!
luddite, phillistine, pedant, aesthete, libertine, tyro, dilettante, neophyte, mendicant, troglodyte, sybarite, charlatan and 23 more...
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madmouth I want goatsy to be an adjective so I can put it in front of lecher Apr 14, 2009