louche.
cross-eyed
Meaning & usage
cross-eyed
cloudy; obscure
shady; dubious; seedy; shifty
Where this word comes from
From Old French lousche, from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (“one-eyed”) ( > Old French lois). Cognate in particular with Italian losco, with whom it shares the semantic shift to describe a shady individual.
cloudiness due to a suspension of fine particles
Where this word comes from
From Old French lousche, from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (“one-eyed”) ( > Old French lois). Cognate in particular with Italian losco, with whom it shares the semantic shift to describe a shady individual.
ladle
Where this word comes from
A dialectal (Norman-Picard) form of Old French louce, loce, from Old Frankish *lōtija, from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō. Cognate with Dutch loet (“a tool to scrape or shovel”). More at loot.
inflection of loucher: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
inflection of loucher: second-person singular imperative
Where this word comes from
Regular conjugation of -er verb loucher
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