lecher

See also: Lecher and lécher

English

Alternative forms

• leachour, leacher (obsolete)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)

Noun

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person.
   • 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202:

     The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

Translations

a lecherous person

• Bulgarian: развратник (bg) m (razvratnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 色鬼 (zh) (sèguǐ), 登徒子 (zh) (dēngtúzǐ), 好色之徒 (zh) (hàosèzhītú), 色狼 (zh) (sèláng)

• Dutch: geilaard (nl), rasversierder, schuinsmarcherdder m
• Finnish: irstailija (fi), pukki (fi), häntäheikki (fi), hamesankari (fi), naistenmies (fi)
• French: pervers (fr) m, porc (fr) m, obsédé (fr) m
• German: Lüstling (de) m, Wüstling (de) m, Lustmolch (de) m
• Icelandic: saurlífisseggur m
• Italian: mandrillo (it) m, pervertito (it) m, depravato (it) m, libertino (it) m
• Japanese: 助け平 (すけべ, すけべえ, sukebe, sukebē)
• Latin: sellārius m
• Portuguese: depravado (pt) m, devasso (pt) m
• Russian: развра́тник (ru) m (razvrátnik), развра́тница (ru) f (razvrátnica), блудни́к (ru) m (bludník), блудни́ца (ru) f (bludníca), распу́тник (ru) m (raspútnik), распу́тница (ru) f (raspútnica)
• Spanish: lascivo (es) m, libidinoso (es) m

Verb

lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)

1. To practice lewdness.

Further reading

• “lecher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “lecher”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “lecher”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.