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Definitions and meaning of leech

leech

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: lēch, IPA^(key): /liːt͡ʃ/
• Homophone: leach
• Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).

Noun

leech (plural leeches)

1. An aquatic blood-sucking annelid of class Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
2. (figuratively) A person who derives profit from others in a parasitic fashion.
3. (medicine, dated) A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
4. (derogatory) A disrespectful person.

Synonyms

• (person who lives as a parasite): parasite, sponger, bloodsucker, vampire; See also Thesaurus:scrounger
• (disrespectful person): Thesaurus:jerk

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

leech (third-person singular simple present leeches, present participle leeching, simple past and past participle leeched)

1. (transitive, literally) To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To drain (resources) without giving back.

   Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.

Usage notes

Do not confuse this verb with the verb to leach.

Synonyms

• (to drain resources): drain

Derived terms

• leecher

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English leche (“physician”), from Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), from Proto-West Germanic *lākī, from Proto-Germanic *lēkijaz (“doctor”), of disputed origin, but usually thought to be connected with Proto-Celtic (compare Old Irish líaig (“charmer, exorcist, physician”)) and Serbo-Croatian ljèkār, Polish lekarz (“physician, doctor”); perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”).

Cognate with Old Frisian lētza (“physician”), Old Saxon lāki (“physician”), Old High German lāhhi (“doctor, healer”), Danish læge (“doctor, surgeon”), Gothic 𐌻𐌴𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (lēkeis, “physician”).

Noun

leech (plural leeches)

2. (archaic) A physician.
   • 1610, Bolton, Armoriesː

     The word Physitian we do vulgarly abuse (as we doe very many other(s)) for a Leech , or Medicus.

   • 1610, Bolton, Armoriesː

     As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks (that is, in those speculations which concerne the workes of nature) the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian.
3. (Germanic paganism) A healer.
   • 1996, Swain Wodening, “Scandinavian Craft Lesson 6: Runic Divination”, Theod Magazine 3 (4)

     In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.

Synonyms

• (physician): barber, doctor, physician
• (healer in Heathenry): healer

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Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English lechen (“to cure, heal, treat”), from Middle English leche (“doctor, physician”). Compare Swedish läka (“to heal”).

Verb

leech (third-person singular simple present leeches, present participle leeching, simple past and past participle leeched)

1. (archaic, rare) To treat, cure or heal.
   • 1564, Accounts of Louth Corporalː

     Paid for leeching.. my horses very sick.

   • 1566–74, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotlandː

     To one man (that) broke his leg in Strivelin … Item to the man that leecheth him.

   • 1850, Blackieː

     A disease that none may leech.

Synonyms

• (make better): treat, cure, heal

Derived terms

• leecher

References

• NED

Etymology 4

From Middle English lek, leche, lyche, from Old Norse lík (“leechline”), from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką (compare West Frisian lyk (“band”), Dutch lijk (“boltrope”), Middle High German geleich (“joint, limb”)), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- ‘to bind’ (compare Latin ligō (“tie, bind”), Ukrainian нали́гати (nalýhaty, “to bridle, fetter”), Albanian lidh (“to bind”), Hittite link- (caus. linganu-) ‘to swear’ (with -n- infix).

Noun

leech (plural leeches)

2. (nautical) The vertical edge of a square sail.
3. (nautical) The aft edge of a triangular sail.

Derived terms

• leech line

Translations

See also

• Sail components on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• foot
• luff

Anagrams

• chele, leche

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• leich (Kölsch), liëht, leht (western Ripuarian)
• licht, liecht (northern Moselle Franconian), lechte (Siegerland)
• leicht (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German līht, from Proto-Germanic *linhtaz. The form shows shortening before -ht followed by later lengthening in the same position (cf. the same in Luxembourgish liicht). The Colognian form leich is probably influenced by Standard German (reinforced by analogy with words where Colognian has -ei- for other Ripuarian -ee-, from Middle High German -ei-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːɕ/
• Homophone: Leech

Adjective

leech (masculine leechte, feminine and plural leechte or leech, comparative leechter, superlative et leechste)

1. (central and eastern Ripuarian) light, not heavy
2. (same dialects) easy, not difficult

West Frisian

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian lēch, from Proto-Germanic *lēgaz, *lēgijaz. Cognate with English low, Scots laigh, Low German leeg, Dutch laag.

Adjective

leech

1. low

Inflection

Further reading

• “leech (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian lethich, from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz. Cognate with English lithy, Low German leddig, Dutch leeg, German ledig.

Adjective

leech

1. empty

Inflection

Further reading

• “leech (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Alternative forms

• leache

Etymology

From Middle English leche, from Old English lǣċe, from Proto-West Germanic *lākī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːt͡ʃ/

Noun

leech

1. physician

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52