lech

See also: Lech, -lech, lệch, and ḻec̱h

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from lecher.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɛt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Noun

lech (plural leches)

  1. (slang) A strong, lecherous desire or craving.
  2. (slang) A lecher.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)

  1. (slang) To behave lecherously.

Etymology 2

Welsh llech (“slate, slab”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɛk/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

lech (plural lechs)

  1. The capstone of a cromlech.

Anagrams

Old Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈlet͡ʃ/

Noun

lech f (usually uncountable)

  1. Apocopic form of leche, milk
    • c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.
      […] e di apparecim ati. por enpararle de mano de los egipcios. por ſacarlo deſta tiera. E leuarlo ala tierra buena ⁊ ampla. Q̃ mana lech. ⁊ miel. […]
      “ […] And say, ‘I have appeared to you to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians [and] to bring them out of that land and take them to the land good and broad that flows with milk and honey.’ […] ”

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /leːχ/

Noun

lech

  1. Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llech lech unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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