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prettygoodwordfarouche (fa-ROOSH) - adj., shy and socially awkward, unsociable; disorderly in appearance or behavior, wild; outrageous, extreme.
Taken in the 1760s from French (though there the meaning is more the first and somewhat the second sense), from Old French word foroche, wild/untamed, alteration of forasche, from Late Latin forasticus, living outside, from Latin foras, outdoors. So the core image is someone who has lived outdoors away from, and so not used to, people.
---L.
Taken in the 1760s from French (though there the meaning is more the first and somewhat the second sense), from Old French word foroche, wild/untamed, alteration of forasche, from Late Latin forasticus, living outside, from Latin foras, outdoors. So the core image is someone who has lived outdoors away from, and so not used to, people.
---L.
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Date: 2026-01-20 03:45 pm (UTC)In my old version of French I’d use le marronage or marrons as a more idiomatic version of this. Obviously not quite 💯, but close enough.
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Date: 2026-01-21 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-21 02:14 pm (UTC)Pretty much. I think I’ve heard farouche in the wild, but in a few times in my life, versus a variants of that is used more frequently.
Edit: I just looked at the glossaire Acadian and I might have heard “Faraud” instead. That’s being vain vs the word linked above. https://www.lexilogos.com/acadien.htm