lecherous
/ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ɚ.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Adam was a perfectly satisfactory dinner companion, if not a bit damp and blandly lecherous (he revealed he had looked at my Instagram before we met and “really liked the photos of me in a bathing suit.”) And now, standing on the street corner, it was unclear how I was going to walk away from this without an awkward shutdown."
Etymology
From Middle English lecherous, licherous, from Old French *lecherous (attested in Old French lecherousement (“lecherously”)), from Old French lecherie, licherie (“gluttony, sensuality, lewdness, lechery”), from Old French lecher, lechier, lekier, lescher (“to lick, live in gluttony or sensuality”), from Old Frankish *lekkōn, *likkōn (“to lick”), from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (“to lick”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- (“to lick”), equivalent to lecher + -ous. More at lick.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɛt͡ʃ.ɚ.əs/
- British English: /ˈlɛtʃ.ə.ɹəs/
Inflected Forms
more lecherous (comparative)
most lecherous (superlative)