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louche.

cross-eyed

6 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

adj/luʃ/
  1. cross-eyed

    dated
  2. cloudy; obscure

    broadly
  3. shady; dubious; seedy; shifty

    figuratively
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.

noun/luʃ/
  1. cloudiness due to a suspension of fine particles

    masculine
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.

noun/luʃ/
  1. ladle

    feminine
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.

verb/luʃ/
  1. inflection of loucher: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person
  2. inflection of loucher: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

Regular conjugation of -er verb loucher

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