Noun: leech
| Singular | leech |
| Plural | leeches |
Sample Sentences
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The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood. [2003, William W. Johnstone, The Last Of The Dog Team, page 195:]
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'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'. [2000, Ray Garmon, The Man Who Just Didn't Care, page 20:]
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At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met. [2006, D. L. Harman, A State of Nine One One, page 106:]
Nouns inflected like leech
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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). See: Middle English Nouns '
leche', Old English Nouns '
lǣċe', Dutch Nouns '
laak'.
Verbs referencing "leech"
Danish Nouns
læge, Finnish Nouns
liitsi.