coucher

[koo-cher, kou-]

noun

Papermaking.

1. the worker who transfers sheets of wet pulp to the couch.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coucher¹

First recorded in 1745–55; couch + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Ofwat's chair Iain Coucher said Mr Black had worked "tirelessly, to bring about transformational change in the water sector".

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Iain Coucher, chairman of water industry regulator Ofwat, told the committee of MPs that "at this point" he is "confident the shareholders will inject some cash".

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Yes, I’m talking “Voulez-vous coucher …” and all that jazz, including visits from the green fairy.

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“I’m in show business. You show your butt or your back or your shoulder and you go, ‘Voulez-vous coucher avec moi.’

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I was reading all this in English, of course, my own French having stalled around “Voulez-vous coucher avec moi”, but I could glean from Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokurov’s translation that Chamoiseau’s language was not that of the Académie – or not only that.

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