"toucher" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "child toucher"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "near as a toucher"
    }
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "toucher"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English toucher",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "touch",
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      },
      "expansion": "touch + -er",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. The pejorative sense is derived from the sense of \"touching\" someone for money.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "touchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who touches."
      ],
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        ]
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bowls (game)",
          "orig": "en:Bowls (game)",
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            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ball lying in contact with the jack."
      ],
      "id": "en-toucher-en-noun-Xly~Bm4x",
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        [
          "bowls",
          "bowls"
        ],
        [
          "ball",
          "ball"
        ],
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          "jack",
          "jack"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack."
      ]
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          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
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      "glosses": [
        "A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "derogatory",
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          "toucha"
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        "(Geordie, derogatory) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return."
      ],
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        "Geordie",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌtʃə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toucher"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -er",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌtʃə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ʌtʃə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "child toucher"
    },
    {
      "word": "near as a toucher"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "toucher"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English toucher",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "touch",
        "3": "-er"
      },
      "expansion": "touch + -er",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. The pejorative sense is derived from the sense of \"touching\" someone for money.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "touchers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "toucher (plural touchers)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 25:",
          "text": "We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who touches."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "touch",
          "touch"
        ]
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    },
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        "en:Bowls (game)"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A ball lying in contact with the jack."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(bowls) A ball lying in contact with the jack."
      ]
    },
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        "Geordie English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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        [
          "toucha",
          "toucha"
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        "(Geordie, derogatory) A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Geordie",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌtʃə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "toucher"
}