Louche

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

November 15th, 2009 | November 15th, 2009 | % | (22 votes, average: 8.05 out of 10)
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2 comments to Louche

• Chris

  July 26, 2010 at 8:20 am

  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.’

• Chris

  July 26, 2010 at 8:22 am

  I have always, always misspelt ‘weird.’ It must be genetic.

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