different between letch vs etch

English

Alternative forms

• lech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?t??/

Etymology 1

See lech, lecher.

Noun

letch (plural letches)

1. (archaic) Strong desire; passion.
   • 1830, Thomas De Quincey, Life of Richard Bentley (review)

     Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others.

2. (informal) A lecher.

Etymology 2

From Middle English leche, for example Sandy's Letch located east of Annitsford in Northumberland.

Noun

letch (plural letches)

1. A stream or pool in boggy land.

Etymology 3

Noun

letch (plural letches)

1. Alternative form of leach

Verb

letch (third-person singular simple present letches, present participle letching, simple past and past participle letched)

1. Alternative form of leach

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English leche (“an infusion”).

Noun

letch

1. small beer

References

• J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Etymology 1

From Dutch etsen (“to etch”), from German ätzen (“to etch”), from Old High German azzon (“to cause to bite or feed”), from Proto-Germanic *atjan?, causative of *etan? (“to eat”) (whence also English eat).

Verb

etch (third-person singular simple present etches, present participle etching, simple past and past participle etched)

1. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
2. To engrave a surface.
3. (figuratively) To make a lasting impression.

   The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

4. To sketch; to delineate.

   • There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

Translations

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

etch

1. Obsolete form of eddish.

Anagrams

• Chet, Tech., chet, echt, hect-, tech