coucher

From Middle English coucher, from Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couch +‎ -er

coucher (plural couchers)

1. One who couches.
2. (papermaking) One who couches paper.
3. (Britain, law, obsolete) A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic.

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4. The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.

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• courche, recouch

From Middle French coucher, from Old French couchier, inherited from Latin collocāre, present active infinitive of collocō (“place, put, assemble”). Doublet of colloquer.

• IPA^(key): /ku.ʃe/

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coucher

1. (transitive) to lay, to lay down
2. (transitive) to put to bed, to put up (a lodger)
3. (reflexive) to go to bed
4. (transitive, agriculture) to lodge, to beat down (wheat)
5. (transitive) to layer (branches)
6. (transitive) to slant (writing)
7. (transitive, military) to aim at
8. (intransitive) to sleep
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Le soir, Michette est livrée en cul. Durcet prend la Martaine pour coucher dans sa chambre, à l'exemple du duc qui a Duclos et de Curval qui a Fanchon; cette fille prend sur lui le même empire lubrique que Duclos sur le duc.

9. (intransitive) to spend the night
10. (intransitive) to lodge
11. (intransitive) to pack off to bed

    coucher avec — to sleep with

• (to go to bed) aller au lit, se pieuter

• Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. going to bed
2. bedding
3. room and board
4. setting (sun)

   coucher de soleil — sunset, sundown

• “coucher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cochour, cowchour, cowchur, cowcher

From Anglo-Norman; equivalent to couche +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːtʃər/, /ˈkuːtʃuːr/

coucher (plural couchers)

1. A worker of inlaid gems and metals.
2. A book containing prayers; a prayer-book.
3. (rare) One who lies in bed (either due to necessity or laziness).
4. (rare) A breed of dog.

• English: coucher
• Scots: coocher

• “cǒuchǒur (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

• couchier

From Old French couchier.

coucher

1. (transitive) to put to bed

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: coucher

coucher m (plural couchers)

1. setting (of the sun)