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▪ I. † lech, n.1 Obs.
Also 3 læch, laich.
[App. to be identified (in spite of the difficult form laichen, which may be corrupt) with OE. léc masc., cogn. w. lócian to look.]
A look, glance.
[c1000ælfric Hom. (Thorpe) II. 374 Wo sceolon awendan urne lec fram yfelre ᵹesihþe, ure hlyst fram yfelre spræce.] c1205Lay. 1884 Laðliche læches heo leiteðeni mid eȝan. Ibid. 3410 He..þas worde seide mid seorhfulle laichen. Ibid. 13703 Mid his lechen he gon liȝen.[Often elsewhere in Lay.] a1250Owl. & Night. 1138 Þine leches beoþ grisliche Þe hwile þu art on lif-daȝe.
▪ II. lech, n.2|lɛk|
[ad. W. llech (flat) stone = Ir., Gael. leac. Cf. cromlech.]
A Celtic monumental stone.
1768–9J. Cleland Spec. Etym. Vocab. 134 A Lech differs from a Cromlech, in that it means the top-stone of a Cromlech, or any sacred stone; whereas Cromlech expresses its adjunct stones and circle underneath it. 1899Baring-Gould Bk. West II. 28 [St. Patrick] did not overthrow their lechs or pillar-stones.
▪ III. ‖ lech, n.3|lɛç|
[Ger.]
(See quot. 1753.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Lech, in metallurgy, a term used by the miners to express the gold ore which has been powdered, and washed, and afterwards run with the assistance of lime stone. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 229 The Schemnitz ore contains a greater quantity of gold..than that of Cremnitz; but the hard ore of the latter yields more lech.
▪ IV. lech, n.4|lɛtʃ|
Also letch.
[Now regarded as a back-formation from lecher n., but cf. letch n.2]
a. A strong desire or longing, esp. sexual.
b. = lecher n.
1796[see letch n.2]. c1830Venus School Mistress Pref. in ‘Pisanus Fraxi’ Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) 399 It [sc. flagellation] is, however, a lech, which has existed from time immemorial. 1868Index expurgatorius of Martial 39 There are various rumours as to the nature of your letch. c1888–94My Secret Life III. 147 Did they fuck with me for fun, for letch, or for money? 1934G. Greene It's a Battlefield 204 This is when a girl gets a baby; when she's got a lech like this. 1938S. Beckett Murphy vii. 126 A man could no more work a woman out of her position on her own ground of sentimental lech than he cd outsmell a dog. 1940S. Lewis Bethel Merriday xxxiii. 387 Your letch for power over everyone around you. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb II. 204 Those who had a lech for violence could gratify it. 1943H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory x. 157 If anybody noticed what I was doing, they'd think I was an old letch. 1956E. Pound tr. Sophocles' Women of Trachis 17 All started when he had a letch for the girl. 1958Spectator 10 Oct. 482/1 A post-war working-class family..—the grey letch of a father, his jolly rolypoly wife and their prissy daughter. 1959J. Braine Vodi xix. 220, I don't mind admitting I always had a lech for her. 1960Times Lit. Suppl. 27 May 333/4 Graves is ‘a lech’, whose current mistress is Purling's wife, Jo. 1964[see drool v.]. 1970Guardian 13 Feb. 9/6 A rich man can have a beautiful young wife even if he is a gropy old letch! 1971Petticoat 17 July 7/1 Out of ten girls who are invited back to men's flats for coffee, at least eight expect a cup of coffee and are quite shocked and horrified when they find themselves pinned to the bed, five seconds after walking into the lech's lair. 1972Sunday Times 12 Nov. 40/3 Many so-called platonic friendships..are merely one-way leches.
▪ V. lech, v.|lɛtʃ|
Also letch.
[Back-formation from lecher n.]
intr. To behave lustfully, to feel or to be lecherous. Occas., to have a (non-sexual) desire.
1911J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 68 And drunk and leched from day till morrow. 1940E. Pound Let. 18 Jan. (1971) 334, I have now the text of Erigena, and if I could get hold of the recent publications about him, I could write quite a chunk. Not that I am letching to. 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 110 Letch, to look at women, not necessarily in a lecherous way, in spite of its derivation. 1957C. Day Lewis Pegasus 13 Unblest, Unchecked—what a serpent flame letched at her marrow! 1963‘M. Corrigan’ Why do Women—? xiii. 89, I..letch around looking for sex thrills. 1972M. Farhi Pleasure of your Death vii. 173 He was still watching the..shapely ankles when Chastity pulled him to task. ‘Don't lech!’ 1973Guardian 27 Feb. 10/1 A fortyish factory worker..lives with..an obsessively nubile sister whom he obviously leches after.
▪ VI. lech
obs. form of leech n.1 |