lecher
/ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/
lecher noun: a lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
Noun
lecher (plural lechers)
- A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
- The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202
Verb
lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)
- To practice lewdness.
Proper noun capitalized: Lecher
Lecher (plural Lechers)
- A surname.
lecher meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
lecher in Hindi
- lecher
- कामुक kāmuk
lecher in Tamil
- ஒழுக்கக்கேடன், காமி
lecher in Urdu
- شہوت پسند
lecher in Malayalam
- libertine, lecherous man, womanizer
- ശൃംഗാരി, ദുർന്നടപ്പുകാരൻ, സുരതാർത്ഥി, സ്ത്രീലമ്പടൻ, കഞ്ചുകി, കുഞ്ജകൻ
More languagesFewer languages
- lecher in Kannada
- ವ್ಯಭಿಚಾರಿ, ಕಾಮುಕ, ಹಾದರಿಗ, ಸೂಳೆಗ
- lecher in Punjabi
- ਹਿਰਸੀ ਟੱਟੂ hirsī ṭaṭṭū
- lecher in Odia
- ଯୋନି କୀଟ J̄oni kīṭa
- lecher in Sanskrit
- संभोग saṃbhóga
Forms of lecher
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | lechers |
| alternative form (obsolete) | leachour |
| alternative form (obsolete) | leacher |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | lechers |
| present participle | lechering |
| past participle | lechered |
| past | lechered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Lechers |
Origin of lecher
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.
Americanized German surname, from Löcher, Locher.
Words formed from lecher
Words that rhyme with lecher
Questions about lecher
- What does lecher mean?
- Lecher means a lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
- What is lecher in Hindi?
- Lecher in Hindi is कामुक (kāmuk). See Lecher meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is lecher?
- Lecher can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lecher?
- Lecher is pronounced /ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of lecher?
- The plural of lecher is lechers.
Words near lecher in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lecher (page history and authors); Lecher (page history and authors); कामुक (Hindi) (page history and authors); lecher (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lecher (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lecher (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lecher (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਹਿਰਸੀ ਟੱਟੂ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); संभोग (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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