lecher

Etymology

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.

noun

  1. A lecherous person.
    The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen. 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre, page 202

verb

  1. To practice lewdness.

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