farouche

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farouche (fah-ROOSH) - adj., marked by sullen shyness and lack of social graces; wild.


The basic connotation being untamed. Borrowed around 1765 from French farouche, shy or wild, from Old French, faroche, from Late Latin forasticus, from without, from Latin foras, out of doors, akin to Latin fores, door.

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