lecher

• leachour, leacher (obsolete)

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.

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

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
   • 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.

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

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

1. To practice lewdness.

• “lecher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lecher”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “lecher”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.