† lechn.¹

Forms: Also Middle English læch, laich.

Etymology: Apparently to be identified (in spite of the difficult form laichen , which may be corrupt) with Old English léc (masculine), cognate with lócian to look v.

Obsolete.

A look, glance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun]

eie wurpc950

laitc1175

looka1200

lecha1250

sightc1275

insighta1375

blushc1390

castc1400

glentc1400

blenkc1440

regardc1450

ray1531

beam of sight1579

eye-beam1583

eyewink1591

blink1594

aspecta1616

benda1616

eyeshot1615

eye-casta1669

twire1676

ken1736

Magdalene-look1752

glimmering1759

deek1833

wink1847

deck1853

vision1855

pipe1865

skeg1876

dekko1894

screw1904

slant1911

gander1914

squiz1916

butcher's hook1934

butcher's1936

gawk1940

bo-peep1941

nose1976

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 374 Wo sceolon awendan urne lec fram yfelre gesihþe, ure hlyst fram yfelre spræce.]

a1250 Owl. & Night. 1138 Þine leches beoþ grisliche Þe hwile þu art on lif-daȝe.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6838 Mid his lechen he gon liȝen.[Often elsewhere in Lay.]

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1703 He..þas worde seide mid seorhfulle laichen [c1300 Otho speche].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 944 Laðliche læches heo leiteden mid eȝan.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

lechn.²

Brit.

/lɛk/,

/lɛx/, U.S.

/lɛk/,

/lɛx/, Welsh English

/lɛx/

Etymology: < Welsh llech (flat) stone = Irish, Gaelic leac . Compare cromlech n.

A Celtic monumental stone.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone

stone847

standing stone1180

longstone1651

hoar-stone1666

pillar-stone1723

lech1768

holed-stone1769

stela1776

bluestone1812

menhir1819

stele1820

monolith1836

tanist-stone1851

megalith1853

orthostat1909

1768–9 J. 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.

1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 28 [St. Patrick] did not overthrow their lechs or pillar-stones.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lechn.³

Brit.

/lɛx/, U.S.

/lɛx/

Etymology: German.

(See quot. 1753.)

ΚΠ

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 66 The Schemnitz ore contains a greater quantity of gold..than that of Cremnitz; but the hard ore of the latter yields more Lech.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

lechn.⁴

Brit.

/lɛtʃ/, U.S.

/lɛtʃ/

Forms: Also letch.

Etymology: Now regarded as a back-formation < lecher n.¹, but compare letch n.²

a. A strong desire or longing, esp. sexual.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun]

ondeeOE

yearningeOE

longingOE

forlonginga1250

mourningc1300

yering13..

eye-seke?c1500

panting1580

greening1584

smackeringa1586

brame1590

languora1599

earning1603

lingering1608

yawning1635

tantalizing1640

slavering1642

longingness1651

tantalization1654

twittering1668

hankering1678

honing1725

lech1796

yearna1797

languishment1817

yearningness1839

hanker1881

tantalizingness1889

yen1906

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun]

lustc1000

goleheada1325

luxury1340

luxurec1374

concupiscencec1386

gigletrya1387

nicetya1387

flesh-lusta1400

lovereda1400

sensualities1477

lascivity1490

lubricitya1492

libidinosity1509

luxuriousness1542

veneriousness1547

rammishness1552

luxe1558

ustion1559

lustinessa1575

luxurity1576

lusting1580

by-lusting1583

lasciviousness1590

lusciousness1594

epithymy1600

concupiscency1608

libidinousness1611

lustfulness1611

concupiscentiality1612

rampancy1652

venereousness1659

ustulation1660

lasciviency1664

salaciousness1727

lech1796

lustihood1798

randinessc1890

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Letch, a whim of the amorous kind, out of the common way.

c1830 Venus School Mistress Pref., in ‘Pisanus Fraxi’ Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) 399 It [sc. flagellation] is, however, a lech, which has existed from time immemorial.

1868 tr. Martial Index Expurgatorius 39 There are various rumours as to the nature of your letch.

c1890 My Secret Life III. 147 Did they fuck with me for fun, for letch, or for money?

1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield 204 This is when a girl gets a baby; when she's got a lech like this.

1938 S. 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.

1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday xxxiii. 387 Your letch for power over everyone around you.

1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 204 Those who had a lech for violence could gratify it.

1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 17 All started when he had a letch for the girl.

1959 J. Braine Vodi xix. 220 I don't mind admitting I always had a lech for her.

1972 Sunday Times 12 Nov. 40/3 Many so-called platonic friendships..are merely one-way leches.

b. = lecher n.¹

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > lecher

lecherc1175

lechererc1380

router1531

twigger1573

luxur1604

bitch-hunter1611

whorehopper1664

swinge-bow1675

tomcat1884

chippy chaser1887

alley cat1911

lech1943

stoata1960

shark1981

1943 H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory x. 157 If anybody noticed what I was doing, they'd think I was an old letch.

1958 Spectator 10 Oct. 482/1 A post-war working-class family..—the grey letch of a father, his jolly rolypoly wife and their prissy daughter.

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 May 333/4 Graves is ‘a lech’, whose current mistress is Purling's wife, Jo.

1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 38 An awful drooling lech!

1970 Guardian 13 Feb. 9/6 A rich man can have a beautiful young wife even if he is a gropy old letch!

1971 Petticoat 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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

LechLekhn.⁵adj.

/lɛx/

Forms: Also Lach, L'ach /ɬax/.

Etymology: < German Lech, Old Russian lyakh; < Old Polish *lęch.

A. n.⁵

A member of an early Slavonic people once inhabiting the region around the upper Oder and Vistula, whose descendants are the Poles; also, the name of a legendary ancestor of this people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Lech

Lech1893

1893 W. R. Morfill Poland 23 In the sixth or seventh centuries some people settled on that river [sc. the Vistula] are called Lekhs, a word which has never been satisfactorily explained. The older form probably had a nasal: hence we get in the Latin chroniclers Lenchitæ, in Lithuanian, Lenkas, and in Magyar, Lengyel.

1911 [see sense B.].

1950 A. P. Goudy in Cambr. Hist. Poland to 1696 i. 10 Besides the name Polanie, there existed another collective name—Lachy (Lechs). This term is used in the Chronicle of Nestor to indicate the Poles and came into frequent use by the old chroniclers.

B. adj.

Of or pertaining to the Lechs or their language. Cf. Lechish n. and adj., Lechitic n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [adjective] > Lech

Lech1911

Lechitic1934

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavic > Lechitic

Polabian1880

Lechish1888

Sorbian1908

Lech1911

Lechitic1934

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 236/2 In the north Polish is closely connected with Kašube, and this with Polab, making the group of L'ach dialects in which the nasals survived... The two Sorb dialects link the L'achs on to the Čechs and Slovaks, the whole making the N.W. group with its preference for c, z, s as against č, ž, š.

1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 161/2 The nearest relative of Polish is Polabian, with which it forms the Lech group.

1939 G. Slocombe Hist. Poland (new ed.) 12 The Western Slavs had become divided into three distinct sections: the Serbs..; the Czech group..; and the Lech group, in which were included the Obodrites, the Wiltzi, the Pomeranians.., and other tribes who were in the course of the succeeding centuries to form the Polish nation.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

lechv.

Brit.

/lɛtʃ/, U.S.

/lɛtʃ/

Forms: Also letch.

Etymology: Back-formation < lecher n.¹

intransitive. To behave lustfully, to feel or to be lecherous. Occasionally, to have a (non-sexual) desire.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > lust [verb (intransitive)]

covet1382

lust1526

lech1911

the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (intransitive)]

wilneOE

me lusteth1390

desire1393

lusta1400

like1780

lech1940

1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 68 And drunk and leched from day till morrow.

1940 E. 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.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 110 Letch, to look at women, not necessarily in a lecherous way, in spite of its derivation.

1957 C. 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.

1972 M. Farhi Pleasure of your Death vii. 173 He was still watching the..shapely ankles when Chastity pulled him to task. ‘Don't lech!’

1973 Guardian 27 Feb. 10/1 A fortyish factory worker..lives with..an obsessively nubile sister whom he obviously leches after.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1250

n.²1768

n.³1753

n.⁴1796

n.⁵adj.1893

v.1911

单词	lech
释义	† lechn.¹ Forms: Also Middle English læch, laich. Etymology: Apparently to be identified (in spite of the difficult form laichen , which may be corrupt) with Old English léc (masculine), cognate with lócian to look v. Obsolete. A look, glance. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] eie wurpc950 laitc1175 looka1200 lecha1250 sightc1275 insighta1375 blushc1390 castc1400 glentc1400 blenkc1440 regardc1450 ray1531 view1546 beam of sight1579 eye-beam1583 eyewink1591 blink1594 aspecta1616 benda1616 eyeshot1615 eye-casta1669 twire1676 ken1736 Magdalene-look1752 glimmering1759 deek1833 wink1847 deck1853 vision1855 pipe1865 skeg1876 dekko1894 screw1904 slant1911 gander1914 squiz1916 butcher's hook1934 butcher's1936 gawk1940 bo-peep1941 nose1976 c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 374 Wo sceolon awendan urne lec fram yfelre gesihþe, ure hlyst fram yfelre spræce.] a1250 Owl. & Night. 1138 Þine leches beoþ grisliche Þe hwile þu art on lif-daȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6838 Mid his lechen he gon liȝen.[Often elsewhere in Lay.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1703 He..þas worde seide mid seorhfulle laichen [c1300 Otho speche]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 944 Laðliche læches heo leiteden mid eȝan. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). lechn.² Brit. /lɛk/, /lɛx/, U.S. /lɛk/, /lɛx/, Welsh English /lɛx/ Etymology: < Welsh llech (flat) stone = Irish, Gaelic leac . Compare cromlech n. A Celtic monumental stone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > structure or erection > stone stone847 standing stone1180 longstone1651 hoar-stone1666 pillar-stone1723 lech1768 holed-stone1769 stela1776 bluestone1812 menhir1819 stele1820 monolith1836 tanist-stone1851 megalith1853 orthostat1909 1768–9 J. 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. 1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 28 [St. Patrick] did not overthrow their lechs or pillar-stones. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lechn.³ Brit. /lɛx/, U.S. /lɛx/ Etymology: German. (See quot. 1753.) ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 66 The Schemnitz ore contains a greater quantity of gold..than that of Cremnitz; but the hard ore of the latter yields more Lech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lechn.⁴ Brit. /lɛtʃ/, U.S. /lɛtʃ/ Forms: Also letch. Etymology: Now regarded as a back-formation < lecher n.¹, but compare letch n.² a. A strong desire or longing, esp. sexual. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > longing or yearning > [noun] ondeeOE yearningeOE longingOE forlonginga1250 mourningc1300 yering13.. eye-seke?c1500 panting1580 greening1584 smackeringa1586 brame1590 languora1599 earning1603 lingering1608 yawning1635 tantalizing1640 slavering1642 longingness1651 tantalization1654 twittering1668 hankering1678 honing1725 lech1796 yearna1797 languishment1817 yearningness1839 hanker1881 tantalizingness1889 yen1906 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] lustc1000 goleheada1325 luxury1340 luxurec1374 concupiscencec1386 gigletrya1387 nicetya1387 flesh-lusta1400 lovereda1400 sensualities1477 lascivity1490 lubricitya1492 libidinosity1509 luxuriousness1542 veneriousness1547 rammishness1552 luxe1558 ustion1559 lustinessa1575 luxurity1576 lusting1580 by-lusting1583 lasciviousness1590 lusciousness1594 epithymy1600 concupiscency1608 libidinousness1611 lustfulness1611 concupiscentiality1612 rampancy1652 venereousness1659 ustulation1660 lasciviency1664 salaciousness1727 lech1796 lustihood1798 randinessc1890 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Letch, a whim of the amorous kind, out of the common way. c1830 Venus School Mistress Pref., in ‘Pisanus Fraxi’ Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) 399 It [sc. flagellation] is, however, a lech, which has existed from time immemorial. 1868 tr. Martial Index Expurgatorius 39 There are various rumours as to the nature of your letch. c1890 My Secret Life III. 147 Did they fuck with me for fun, for letch, or for money? 1934 G. Greene It's a Battlefield 204 This is when a girl gets a baby; when she's got a lech like this. 1938 S. 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. 1940 S. Lewis Bethel Merriday xxxiii. 387 Your letch for power over everyone around you. 1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 204 Those who had a lech for violence could gratify it. 1956 E. Pound tr. Sophocles Women of Trachis 17 All started when he had a letch for the girl. 1959 J. Braine Vodi xix. 220 I don't mind admitting I always had a lech for her. 1972 Sunday Times 12 Nov. 40/3 Many so-called platonic friendships..are merely one-way leches. b. = lecher n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lascivious or lustful person > lecher lecherc1175 lechererc1380 router1531 twigger1573 luxur1604 bitch-hunter1611 whorehopper1664 swinge-bow1675 tomcat1884 chippy chaser1887 alley cat1911 lech1943 stoata1960 shark1981 1943 H. A. Smith Life in Putty Knife Factory x. 157 If anybody noticed what I was doing, they'd think I was an old letch. 1958 Spectator 10 Oct. 482/1 A post-war working-class family..—the grey letch of a father, his jolly rolypoly wife and their prissy daughter. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 May 333/4 Graves is ‘a lech’, whose current mistress is Purling's wife, Jo. 1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 38 An awful drooling lech! 1970 Guardian 13 Feb. 9/6 A rich man can have a beautiful young wife even if he is a gropy old letch! 1971 Petticoat 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). LechLekhn.⁵adj. /lɛx/ Forms: Also Lach, L'ach /ɬax/. Etymology: < German Lech, Old Russian lyakh; < Old Polish lęch. A. n.⁵ A member of an early Slavonic people once inhabiting the region around the upper Oder and Vistula, whose descendants are the Poles; also, the name of a legendary ancestor of this people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Lech Lech1893 1893 W. R. Morfill Poland* 23 In the sixth or seventh centuries some people settled on that river [sc. the Vistula] are called Lekhs, a word which has never been satisfactorily explained. The older form probably had a nasal: hence we get in the Latin chroniclers Lenchitæ, in Lithuanian, Lenkas, and in Magyar, Lengyel. 1911 [see sense B.]. 1950 A. P. Goudy in Cambr. Hist. Poland to 1696 i. 10 Besides the name Polanie, there existed another collective name—Lachy (Lechs). This term is used in the Chronicle of Nestor to indicate the Poles and came into frequent use by the old chroniclers. B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Lechs or their language. Cf. Lechish n. and adj., Lechitic n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [adjective] > Lech Lech1911 Lechitic1934 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavic > Lechitic Polabian1880 Lechish1888 Sorbian1908 Lech1911 Lechitic1934 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 236/2 In the north Polish is closely connected with Kašube, and this with Polab, making the group of L'ach dialects in which the nasals survived... The two Sorb dialects link the L'achs on to the Čechs and Slovaks, the whole making the N.W. group with its preference for c, z, s as against č, ž, š. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 161/2 The nearest relative of Polish is Polabian, with which it forms the Lech group. 1939 G. Slocombe Hist. Poland (new ed.) 12 The Western Slavs had become divided into three distinct sections: the Serbs..; the Czech group..; and the Lech group, in which were included the Obodrites, the Wiltzi, the Pomeranians.., and other tribes who were in the course of the succeeding centuries to form the Polish nation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). lechv. Brit. /lɛtʃ/, U.S. /lɛtʃ/ Forms: Also letch. Etymology: Back-formation < lecher n.¹ intransitive. To behave lustfully, to feel or to be lecherous. Occasionally, to have a (non-sexual) desire. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > lust [verb (intransitive)] covet1382 lust1526 lech1911 the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (intransitive)] wilneOE me lusteth1390 desire1393 lusta1400 like1780 lech1940 1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 68 And drunk and leched from day till morrow. 1940 E. 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. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 110 Letch, to look at women, not necessarily in a lecherous way, in spite of its derivation. 1957 C. 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. 1972 M. Farhi Pleasure of your Death vii. 173 He was still watching the..shapely ankles when Chastity pulled him to task. ‘Don't lech!’ 1973 Guardian 27 Feb. 10/1 A fortyish factory worker..lives with..an obsessively nubile sister whom he obviously leches after. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1250n.²1768n.³1753n.⁴1796n.⁵adj.1893v.1911
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lechv.

† lechn.¹

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lechn.⁴

LechLekhn.⁵adj.