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letch (n.)
"craving, longing, strong desire," 1796 [Grose], perhaps a back-formation from
lecher
, or deformed from a figurative use of
latch
(v.) in a secondary sense of "grasp, grasp on to." Or perhaps from
letch
(v.), a variant of
leach
.
