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faroucheenUK Related to farouche: vexing, serene, spontaneityfa·rouche F0041000 (fä-ro͞osh′)adj.1. Unsociable or shy and socially awkward: "A farouche figure and a bachelor ... [he] had lived all of his life with his mother in the family home" (Frances FitzGerald).2. Disorderly or intimidating in appearance or behavior; wild: "I badly needed a guide ... what I required was the most farouche-looking guy ... and the toughest modern automobile" (Christopher Hitchens).3. Outrageous or extreme: "The President's strategists do not want him to lend more than rhetorical support to farouche new-right causes" (New York Times).
[French, from Old French faroche, alteration of forasche, from Late Latin forāsticus, belonging outside, from Latin forās, out of doors; see foreign.]farouche (faruʃ) adj1. sullen or shy2. socially inept[C18: from French, from Old French faroche, from Late Latin forasticus from without, from Latin foras out of doors]fa•rouche (fəˈruʃ)
adj. 1. fierce. 2. sullenly unsociable or shy. [1755–65; < French; Old French faroche < Vulgar Latin *forasticus foreign, derivative of Latin forās outside] farouche - Means "sullen or shy in company."See also related terms for shy. |