lech

noun

ˈlech How to pronounce lech (audio)
Definition of lechnext
as in desire
sexual appetite a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women

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  1. desire
  2. passion
  3. lust
  4. letch
Noun
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Venus in Pisces inspires your heart’s desires, creative endeavors and romantic pursuits with a dreamy, whimsical vibration.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of desire
Noun
  • Released in 2010, Superficial was a passion project into which the couple invested nearly $2 million.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • To call the four-part epic, Horizon: An American Saga a passion project for Costner is an understatement.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
Definition of passion
Noun
  • Ellen’s entire life has been a nightmare, haunted by Orlok and his diabolical lust.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes, the darkness was a lingering memory, whether from a massacre decades ago in My Lai, Vietnam, or from a 17th-century genocide on an island in Indonesia, with the slaughter driven by a lust for nutmeg.
    Bryant Rousseau, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Definition of lust
Noun
  • Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
    Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.
    Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
Definition of letch
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