different between toucha vs toucher

English

Alternative forms

• toucher

Etymology

From the Standard English touch, as in "touching someone for money".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?t??/

Noun

toucha (plural touchas)

1. (Tyneside, derogatory) A person who tries get something out of others for nothing in return.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.?a/

Verb

toucha

1. third-person singular past historic of toucher

   Elle me toucha la main, la baisa, et je tombai amoureux d'elle.

   She touched my hand, kissed it, and I fell in love with her.

English

Etymology

From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch +? -er. The pejorative sense is derived from the sense of "touching" someone for money.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Noun

toucher (plural touchers)

1. One who touches.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 4:

     We just twist up Chancery Lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes' time, as near as a toucher.

2. (bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack.
3. (Tyneside, derogatory) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.

Anagrams

• Hectour, hectour, retouch

French

Etymology

From Middle French toucher, from Old French tochier, from Vulgar Latin *tucc? (“to strike; to touch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.?e/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: touchai, touché, touchée, touchées, touchers, touchés, touchez

Noun

toucher m (plural touchers)

1. The act of touching (see below).
2. A way of touching.
3. The sense of touch, tactility.

Verb

toucher

1. (transitive) To touch (physically).

2. (transitive) To affect

3. (intransitive, followed by "à") To try, to try out.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) Short for toucher sa bille. To be skillful.

5. (transitive, money, income) to receive, to get

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: toucheren

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “toucher” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Verb

toucher

1. to touch

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: toucher