cafard
noun
ca·fard
kȧfȧr
plural -s
: severe depression or apathy —used especially of white people in the tropics
Word History
Etymology
French, literally, cockroach, from Middle French, cockroach, hypocrite, modification of Arabic kāfir infidel
First Known Use
1915, in the meaning defined above
- spondaic hexameter
- spondaiccer
- spondaiccest
- spondaicer
- spondaicest
- spondaics
- spondaize
- spondaized
- spondaizeed
- spondaizeing
- spondaizes
- spondaizing
- spondean
- spondee
- spondees
- Spondiaceae
- Spondias
- spondiases
- spondulicks
- spondulix
- spondyl
- spondylarthrites
- spondylarthritides
- spondylarthritises
- spondylarthritisses