cafardn.

Forms: Also cafart, caffard.

Etymology: < French cafard, caphard, of doubtful origin: some have proposed to identify it with Catalan cafre infidel, Spanish cafre , Portuguese cafre cruel, which are apparently < Arabic kāfir : see Kaffir n.

†1. A hypocrite, an impostor. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite

hypocrite?c1225

dissimuler1386

whited (painted) sepulchre1388

dissimulator?a1513

dissembler1526

cafard1539

Tartuffe1688

hypocritic1818

Pecksniff1844

possum1846

slape-face1847

double-face1892

1539 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 593 We commoned of the cafart, Cornibus, that slaunderose frere.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlv. 201 So did a certaine Cafard or dissembling religionarie preach at Sinay, that Saint Antonie sent the fire into mens legs.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. liv. 236 Slipshod caffards, beggers pretending wants.

2. Melancholia; depression; ‘the blues’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of

gloominga1400

dumpa1535

mubble fubbles1589

mulligrubs1599

mumps1599

mood1609

blues1741

mopes1742

gloom1744

humdrums1757

dismals1764

horror1768

mournfuls1794

doldrum1811

doleful1822

glumps1825

jim-jams1896

katzenjammer1897

the sniffles1903

mopery1907

joes1916

woofits1918

cafard1924

jimmies1928

the blahs1969

downer1970

1924 P. C. Wren Beau Geste i. i. 14 I see my handful of cafard-stricken men in my mud fort.

1926 G. M. Gould Dict. Med. (ed. 8) 261/2 Cafard, a subacute melancholia, characterized by attacks of the ‘blues’..; observed in soldiers.

1949 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. Don Juan was stricken with the superb cafard of the Romantics.

1951 W. Sansom Face of Innocence ix. 131 The itch of over-eating and the cafard that too much pernod leaves behind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cafard
释义	cafardn. Forms: Also cafart, caffard. Etymology: < French cafard, caphard, of doubtful origin: some have proposed to identify it with Catalan cafre infidel, Spanish cafre , Portuguese cafre cruel, which are apparently < Arabic kāfir : see Kaffir n. †1. A hypocrite, an impostor. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite hypocrite?c1225 dissimuler1386 whited (painted) sepulchre1388 dissimulator?a1513 dissembler1526 cafard1539 Tartuffe1688 hypocritic1818 Pecksniff1844 possum1846 slape-face1847 double-face1892 1539 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 593 We commoned of the cafart, Cornibus, that slaunderose frere. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlv. 201 So did a certaine Cafard or dissembling religionarie preach at Sinay, that Saint Antonie sent the fire into mens legs. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. liv. 236 Slipshod caffards, beggers pretending wants. 2. Melancholia; depression; ‘the blues’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [noun] > fit of gloominga1400 dumpa1535 mubble fubbles1589 mulligrubs1599 mumps1599 mood1609 blues1741 mopes1742 gloom1744 humdrums1757 dismals1764 horror1768 mournfuls1794 doldrum1811 doleful1822 glumps1825 jim-jams1896 katzenjammer1897 the sniffles1903 mopery1907 joes1916 woofits1918 cafard1924 jimmies1928 the blahs1969 downer1970 1924 P. C. Wren Beau Geste i. i. 14 I see my handful of cafard-stricken men in my mud fort. 1926 G. M. Gould Dict. Med. (ed. 8) 261/2 Cafard, a subacute melancholia, characterized by attacks of the ‘blues’..; observed in soldiers. 1949 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. Don Juan was stricken with the superb cafard of the Romantics. 1951 W. Sansom Face of Innocence ix. 131 The itch of over-eating and the cafard that too much pernod leaves behind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1539
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