lech

Back-formation from lecher.

• letch

• IPA^(key): /lɛt͡ʃ/
• Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

lech (plural leches)

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

• lechfest

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

1. (slang) To behave lecherously.

Welsh llech (“slate, slab”)

• IPA^(key): /lɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

lech (plural lechs)

1. The capstone of a cromlech.

• Chel, HELC

• IPA^(key): /ˈlet͡ʃ/

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.’ […] ”

• IPA^(key): /leːχ/

lech

1. Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).

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