A Dictionary of Epithets and Terms of Address
This term is used disapprovingly of a man who is constantly thinking about his sexual gratification. The word came into English from French, and is connected etymologically with modern French fécher, ‘to lick’.
In Hotel, by Arthur Hailey, the Duke of Croydon makes overtly sexual remarks to his wife. She becomes very angry and calls him ‘you lecher’. The Half Hunter, by John Sherwood, has a man saying jokingly to a younger man: ‘Fie upon you, you odious lecher.’
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