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toucher

toucher noun: one who touches.

Noun

toucher (plural touchers)

  1. One who touches.
    • We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 25
  2. (bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack.
  3. (Geordie, derogatory) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.

Forms of toucher

pluraltouchers

Origin of toucher

From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money.

Words formed from toucher

Questions about toucher

What does toucher mean?
Toucher means one who touches.
What part of speech is toucher?
Toucher is a noun.
What is the plural of toucher?
The plural of toucher is touchers.

Words near toucher in the dictionary

  1. touched upon
  2. touched wood
  3. touchedness
  4. touchedst
  5. Toucheng
  6. toucher
  7. toucherism
  8. touchers
  9. touches
  10. touches a nerve
  11. touches and goes

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