Nov
15
The Francophile air, the naughty mystery, the sense of not being quite the thing and oh yeah and who cares. The devil-may-care.
Webster’s online says it derives from French, literally, cross-eyed, squint-eyed, from Latin luscus, blind in one eye…. A wink that could mean many things, or nothing at all.
Kathe Koja
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As a French speaker I’ve always understood this word to mean ‘dodgy, seedy, wierd.’ If you leer unpleasantly at women and are suspected of being a closet sociopath, people might describe you as ‘louche.’ It might also refer to a place.
If I were trying to cultivate an air of Gallic, devil-may-care sophistication I’d be aiming rather for ‘nonchalant’ or ’suave.’
I have always, always misspelt ‘weird.’ It must be genetic.