English

Noun

lewdster ‎(plural lewdsters)

1. A lewd person; a lecher.
   • 1843, John Rogers, Anti-popery: Or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural and Novel:

     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.

   • 1946, Charles Lee, His reader:

     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'.

   • 1981, Sakhyānandasvāmikaḷ, Glimpses of Our Glorious Past:

     He was a weakling, a lewdster: with him the line of kings started from IkshWaku became extinct.

   • 2000, Rik Isensee, The God Squad: (A Spoof on the Ex-gay Movement):

     Jackson said, “What a lewdster.” “This is totally bizarre,” Sheila said. “Let's show this tape to Ruth.”

   • 2006, Cat Sparks, Agog! Ripping Reads:

     You are such a lusty lewdster, Giles. I sometimes think men think of little else but the ungirding of their loins.

   • 2013, Gavin Wood, Tales of the Jacobite Grenadiers:

     He has spent the last twenty years among coal miners, that's why he's such a lewdster.'

Synonyms

• lewdsby

References

• lewdster in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• wrestled