different between leecher vs lecher

English

Etymology

From leech +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i?t??(?)

Noun

leecher (plural leechers)

1. One who leeches; a physician.
2. (Internet, file sharing) One who downloads a torrent.

See also

• seeder
• torrent

English

Alternative forms

• leachour (obsolete)

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 *lekk?n (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likk?n? (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley??- (“to lick”). More at lick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t??(r)

Noun

lecher (plural lechers)

1. A lecherous person.
   • 2000, Deborah Payne Fisk, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (page 202)

     The comedies work in very obvious ways to feminize this socially-ominous triad of young fops, old lechers, and greedy businessmen.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:libertine

Derived terms

• lech
• lecherous
• lechery

Translations

Verb

lecher (third-person singular simple present lechers, present participle lechering, simple past and past participle lechered)

1. To practice lewdness.

Further reading

• lecher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lecher in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lecher at OneLook Dictionary Search