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letch

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)

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tetch

English

Verb

tetch (third-person singular simple present tetches, present participle tetching, simple past and past participle tetched)

  1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch.

Noun

tetch (plural tetches)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of touch.

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