lech
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Back-formation from lecher.
Alternative forms
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lech (plural leches)
Derived terms
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[edit]Verb
[edit]lech (third-person singular simple present leches, present participle leching, simple past and past participle leched)
- (slang) To behave lecherously.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Welsh llech (“slate, slab”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /lɛk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛk
Noun
[edit]lech (plural lechs)
Anagrams
[edit]Old Spanish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]lech f (usually uncountable)
- 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.’ […] ”
- c. 1200, Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12r.
Welsh
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lech
- Soft mutation of llech (“slate”).
Mutation
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