torcher

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English

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Etymology

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From torch +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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torcher (plural torchers)

  1. One who torches something.
    The torchers of buildings must be dealt with.
  2. (obsolete) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
  3. (music) A torch song
    • 1988 August 26, Neil Tesser, “Montgomery, Plant & Stritch”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      [] their set includes a Patsy Cline torcher and reaches some sort of peak with a 29-song Irving Berlin medley.
  4. (science fiction) The pilot of a spacecraft propelled by a torch drive (a spacecraft engine which produces thrust by nuclear fusion).

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French

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Etymology

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From torche +‎ -er. The vulgar sense is from the notion of wiping one's posterior after defecating.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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torcher

  1. to wipe with a cloth to remove dirt
    Torcher les assiettes.
    To wipe the plates.
  2. to flare (to burn off excess gas at a petroleum drilling site)
  3. (slang) to churn out
    Synonym: bâcler
  4. (vulgar, reflexive) not to care, not to give a fuck
    Je me torche de ce qu’il en pense!
    I don't give a fuck what he thinks about it!

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