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English
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
Noun
lecher (plural lechers)
- 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
Derived terms
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 (ja) (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
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Verb
lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)
- 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.