Meanings
nountoucher (plural touchers)
plural touchers
- One who touches.
We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 25 - GeordiederogatoryA toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
- abbreviationslangA pedophile or child molester. Abbreviation of "child toucher".
Origin
- Middle Englishtoucher
- Englishtoucher
From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money.
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