Letch
[lech] /lɛtʃ/ Slang.
noun
1.
a lecherous desire or craving.
2.
a lecher.
3.
any strong desire or liking.
verb (used without object)
4.
to behave like a lecher (often followed by for or after).
/lɛtʃ/
verb, noun
1.
a variant spelling of lech
n.
“craving, longing,” 1796, perhaps a back-formation from lecher, or from a figurative use of latch (v.) in a secondary sense of “grasp, grasp on to.”
noun
verb
: when Henry goes letching after Anne/ keep Junior from leching (1911+)
[fr lecher, lechery, ultimately fr the notion of licking]
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