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Toucher

Definition: Toucher

Toucher

Noun

1. A person who causes or allows a part of the body to come in contact with someone or something.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Toucher" is a common misspelling or typo for: touched.


Synonyms: Toucher

Synonyms by domain: délire du toucher (medicine), double-toucher (sports & leisure), mysophobia (medicine).

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Crosswords: Toucher

Etymologies containing "toucher": tocsin. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Toucher" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (adjoin, affect, apply, bore, broach, cash, contact, earn, feel, fell, finger, get, handle, hit, impinge, meddle, pick up, receive, relate, sense of touch, sink, strike, tap, tip, touch).

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Modern Usage: Toucher

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Football Toucher Downer (1937)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Toucher

DomainTitle

Books

  • Défense de toucher, ou, La jouissance du dit : essai de métapsychanalyse (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Toucher

"Toucher" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Toucher" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Noun (proper)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toucher

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the toucher

10

soft toucher

4

agency design design scottish site toucher web web

3

infirmiers le soins toucher

3

toucher vaginal

2

le toucher

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toucher

Language Translations for "toucher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ai që prek. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγγίζων. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מששן (antenna of insect, fingerer, pawer). (various references)

   

Manx

  

benneyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouchertay

   

Russian 

  

тот, кто прикасается. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dodirivač. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người sờ (feeler), chỉ một ly nữa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Toucher

Derivations

Words beginning with "toucher": touchers. (additional references)

Words ending with "toucher": retoucher. (additional references)

Words containing "toucher": retouchers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Toucher

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: couther, retouch.

Words within the letters "c-e-h-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: couter, hector, rochet, rotche, rouche, tocher, touche, troche.

-2 letters: chert, chore, chute, court, couth, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, ocher, ochre, other, outer, outre, recto, recut, retch, rotch, route, routh, ruche, teuch, throe, torch, touch, truce.

-3 letters: cero, core, cote, cure, curt, cute, echo, ecru, etch, euro, hero, hoer, hour, hurt, ouch, rote, roue.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: couthier, outreach, scouther, touchers, touchier.

 

+2 letters: cartouche, eutrophic, outcharge, outpreach, retouched, retoucher, retouches, scouthers, truncheon.

 

+3 letters: cartouches, coauthored, courthouse, grouchiest, outcharged, outcharges, outcharmed, outmarched, outmarches, outreached, outreaches, outstretch, retouchers, retouching, scouthered, truncheons.

 

+4 letters: breechclout, champertous, countermyth, countershot, courthouses, euchromatic, euchromatin, neuropathic, outpreached, outpreaches, outreaching, photoreduce, scouthering, thermoduric, treacherous, truncheoned, unretouched, urochordate.

 

+5 letters: breechclouts, butterscotch, countercheck, countermarch, countermyths, counterpunch, countershots, creaturehood, euchromatins, executorship, heteroecious, horticulture, luteotrophic, motherfucker, neurochemist, neutrophilic, outpreaching, outstretched, outstretches, peritrichous, photocurrent, photonuclear, photoreduced, photoreduces, picturephone, thermocouple, thundercloud, truncheoning, turbocharged, turbocharger, underclothes, unrhetorical, urethroscope, urochordates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toucher


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 75 63 68 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    ..-    -.-.    ....    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110101 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#117 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0075 0063 0068 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54818769747184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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