toucher
nounEtymology From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money.
1
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:
2
A ball lying in contact with the jack.
3
Geordie, Derogatory A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
- Derived terms
- child toucher, near as a toucher, titty-toucher, toucherism