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lewdster en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English lewd Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā Old English -estre Middle English -estere English -ster English lewdster From lewd + -ster.

Meanings

1. A lewd person; a lecher.
   • This does not suggest that the Garter Hotel, Windsor, was the Grand Babylon of its day, but merely that Sir John had been behaving as a nasty old man: in short, as Mistress Page observed, he was 'a lewdster'. 1946, Charles Lee, His reader:
   • Jackson said, “What a lewdster.” “This is totally bizarre,” Sheila said. “Let's show this tape to Ruth.” 2000, Rik Isensee, The God Squad: (A Spoof on the Ex-gay Movement):
   • By giving the priesthood an opportunity of poisoning the moral principle, corrupting the mind, and working on the passion of women, it has enabled them to indulge in sensuality, to play the lewdster with their female confitents, and to seduce many a girl and woman who came to confess and be absolved. 1843, John Rogers, Anti-popery: Or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural and Novel:
   • He was a weakling, a lewdster: with him the line of kings started from IkshWaku became extinct. 1981, Sakhyānandasvāmikaḷ, Glimpses of Our Glorious Past:
   • You are such a lusty lewdster, Giles. I sometimes think men think of little else but the ungirding of their loins. 2006, Cat Sparks, Agog! Ripping Reads:
   • He has spent the last twenty years among coal miners, that's why he's such a lewdster.' 2013, Gavin Wood, Tales of the Jacobite Grenadiers:

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Synonyms

lewdsby