lecher
A lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debaucheryA lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
» The frailties of the old lecher were both physical and moral.
Die Schwächen des alten Lüstlings waren sowohl körperlicher als auch moralischer Art. — Dejo
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1 sensesA lecherous person: someone given to excessive sexual activity or debauchery.
Lüstling, Wüstling, Lustmolch
развра́тникrazvrátnik, развра́тницаrazvrátnica, блудни́кbludník
- man with strong sexual desires
Examples
2 sentencesThe frailties of the old lecher were both physical and moral.
deDie Schwächen des alten Lüstlings waren sowohl körperlicher als auch moralischer Art. — Dejo
It leads a lecher and a thief to soon become a man of the cloth.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English lechour, from Old French lecheor (“glutton, sensualist, libertine”) ,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.
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