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
  • Have both deceived themselves about their ambitions, their desires, their essential natures?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • This innate desire for connection, however, combined with people’s reliance on technology, can lead to feelings of FOMO– fear of missing out – and anxiety during a digital detox.
    Discover Magazine, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
Definition of desire
Noun
  • The dedication and passion shown by individuals like Nichole Latrese Gardner and her team are inspiring.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • In today’s business culture where team members are searching for more purpose and passion in their career choices, companies who still believe that business is not personal risk going the way of the dinosaurs.
    Meridith Alexander, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of passion
Noun
  • Love, lust, and vulnerability have become signature themes for Hunxho, who hails from North Carolina but was raised in East Atlanta.
    Yoh Phillips, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Like Water for Chocolate is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 1 Nov. 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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