toucher

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money.

Bertie was one of Nature's touchers. — The Man Upstairs and Other Stories, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
And it is here as in the court, where the nearest are most spited, and all blows aimed at the toucher. — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle
“We just twist up Chancery Lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes’ time, as near as a toucher. — Bleak House, Charles Dickens

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