Crossword clues for lecher
lecher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lecher \Lech"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lechered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lechering.] To practice lewdness.
Lecher \Lech"er\, n. [OE. lechur, lechour, OF. lecheor, lecheur, gormand, glutton, libertine, parasite, fr. lechier to lick, F. l['e]cher; of Teutonic origin. See Lick.] A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit sexual relations with women; also called letch and lech.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"man given to excessive sexual indulgence," late 12c., from Old French lecheor (Modern French lécheur) "one living a life of debauchery," especially "one given to sexual indulgence," literally "licker," agent noun from lechier "to lick, to live in debauchery or gluttony," from Frankish *likkon or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *likkojan "to lick" or some other Germanic source (see lick). The Old French feminine form was lechiere. Middle English, meanwhile, had lickestre "female who licks;" figuratively "a pleasure seeker," literally "lickster."
Wiktionary
n. A lecherous person (qualifier: almost always male). vb. To practice lewdness.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lecher is an English word referring to a person with very strong, perhaps excessive sexual desires. See also Lust.
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Usage examples of "lecher".
Outdoors at night, with too much liquor in their bellies, so-called gentlemen seemed to revert to their basest forms: lechers, oglers, octopuses with multiple, groping hands.
Of course, your President Kennedy was a whoremaster or lecher, but that son of thing is expected in a male leader.
Dieter Spreng, assistant curator of preclassical art at the Antikenmuseum in Berlin, frustrated comic and would-be lecher.
Lecher is still peacefully speaking, the stenographers listening at his lips.
Perhaps it was a pity for Carlina, but all girls were given in marriage, soon or late, and she might have been married to some elderly lecher, or some grizzled old warrior, or even to some bandit barbarian from one of the little kingdoms across the Kadarin, if her father found it expedient to seal an alliance with another kingdom.
I remember an acquaintance of mine literally foaming - there was a line of white between his lips - as he condemned a wretched youth to transportation for carnal knowledge of a fine bold up-standing wench: yet this same man was himself a smell-smock, a cold, determined lecher, a voluptuary, a libertine, a discreet frequenter of Mother Abbot's establishment in Dover Street.
He is an amiable and experienced diplomat -- and the most dedicated lecher in the entire corps diplomatique.
They may be evil old lechers, but they would have been full of fire and ready to move.
Not that they weren't worth ogling, mind you, dressed as they were in those gauzy nightgowns which they favor (and I normally do except when lechers are in the vicinity).
Actions that were good deeds in Merovence would naturally be crimes here--especially if the lechers were in good with the king, and the snakes had been sent to punish the villages that had somehow offended him or his nobles.
Outdoors at night, with too much liquor in their bellies, so-called gentlemen seemed to revert to their basest forms: lechers, oglers, octopuses with multiple, groping hands.
For there are certain tempers of body, which, matcht with an humorous depravity of mind, do hatch and produce vitiosities, whose newness and monstrosity of nature admits no name: this was the temper of that Lecher that fell in love with a Statua, and the constitution of Nero in his Spintrian recreations.
It made me feel even more lonely and despondent, and afterwards, though I am not a lecher, I teetered on the edge of temptation when the girls beckoned from the dark doorways in Wardour Street.