lecher

American  

[lech-er] / ˈlɛtʃ ər /

noun

1. a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or licentious man.

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verb (used without object)

1. to engage in lechery.

lecher British  

/ ˈlɛtʃə /

noun

1. a promiscuous or lewd man

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Etymology

Origin of lecher

1125–75; Middle English lech ( o ) ur < Anglo-French; Old French lecheor glutton, libertine, equivalent to lech ( ier ) to lick (< Germanic; compare Old High German leccōn to lick ) + -eor -or ²

Example Sentences

The inherent pleasure of the pastime is captured in the French term lecher les vitrines, literally, “licking the window glass.”

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The year's finest film, possibly a great one: Michelangelo Antonioni looks long and carefully, as if through a microscope, at the life of a lecher, at "the sickness unto death, which is despair."

From Time Magazine Archive

"I resent the fact that because I'm standing up for my privacy people are drawing an inference that I'm some kind of lecher who has had numerous affairs," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

The opera bristles with an immense variety of forms: a sonata represents the elderly lecher, a rondo suggests his son, ragtime gives way to an English waltz.

From Time Magazine Archive

Did I the Dardan lecher lead, who Sparta's jewel reft?

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William