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  • lech
    lech
    verb
    to behave lecherously (towards); lust (after)
  • Lech
    Lech
    noun
    a river in central Europe, rising in SW Austria and flowing generally north through S Germany to the River Danube. Length: 285 km (177 miles)
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lech

1 British  
/ lɛtʃ /

verb

  1. to behave lecherously (towards); lust (after)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a lecherous act or indulgence

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Lech 2 British  
/ lɛk, lɛç /

noun

  1. a river in central Europe, rising in SW Austria and flowing generally north through S Germany to the River Danube. Length: 285 km (177 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of lech

C19: back formation from lecher

Example Sentences

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The Hollywood Reporter characterized the portrayal as “a creepy beady-eyed lech peering out from under a mountain of latex.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2023

More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.

From New York Times Oct. 26, 2018

Was Mary's husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it?

From Time Magazine Archive

Sche ſall ſice conſell if one to the two, 2116 The lyone and the ſouerane lech alſo, Yow ſall not Ned yi drem̅ for to diſpar, Nor ȝhit no thing that is in thi contrare.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

The lech, the lyone, and the flour alſo, 2124 Yow worſchip them, yow ſerve them euermo; And ples the world as I have ſaid before; In gouernans thus ſtondith al thi glore.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

In Gdansk, she also met Poland's ex-president Lech Walesa, who led the 1980s Solidarity movement that provoked the downfall of the Communist regime in Warsaw.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Among them, Lech Walesa may be the last man standing.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

National Trust Cymru, which cares for the section of the Graig Lech gorge where Leah fell, said it had been informed of the incident.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

A better future shimmers on the page when Lech Wałęsa climbs over a fence as an unemployed electrician, taps someone on the shoulder and becomes “the face of the Polish revolution.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 27, 2025

I am the brother of Rathherr Lech, of the Imperial-royal-city-police-bureau of Vienna. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

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