Pronounced: au-RI-kih-muss, adj
Notes: I didn’t know we had a word for this
Yesterday’s word
The word louche means “not reputable or decent”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1800s
Background / Comments
Our word sounds just like “lush”; I wonder if some people have confused them in the past. It isn’t clear to me if our word and “lush” have any background in common. Our word came from the French word louche (squinting; cross-eyed; shady; devious) – note that the original meaning was the first two; the other (figurative) meanings came later. When we borrowed the word from French, we only used the figurative definitions. The French word came from the Latin word luscus (blind in one eye; having poor sight).
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