lech
verb
to behave lecherously (towards); lust (after)
lech
1 British
/ lɛtʃ /
verb
noun
Lech
2
British
/ lɛk, lɛç /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lech
C19: back formation from lecher
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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
Llech signifies a stone in Welsh, and is pronounced in a way peculiar to the Welsh; when simple it is llech, when compounded lech.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various
Jessica Lech, the Florida real-estate office manager, was optimistic when her TikTok post offering baked goods and showing off her beach setup generated over 800 comments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
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
The account in the Swedish Intelligencer of this celebrated passage of the River Lech is too long for quotation, but I give a condensed version of the circumstances from other sources.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Mason Jackson
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