;Posted on 10/25/2016 6:08:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
LOUCHE [loohsh]
adjective
A louche person, or louche conduct, is devious. perverse, untrustworthy, sinister.
Louche was taken over from the French as is. In French its literal meaning is "squint eyed," but the French use it in a figurative sense to describe a person or behavior of dubious character, equivocal, disreputable, shifty. shady, or more informally, fishy.
Like Caesar's wife who "must be above suspicion," Caesar divorced Pompeia because her name came up in an accusation against a public figure. Her part in the infamy was non existent.
Need I describe Hillary with a life time of salacious and criminal baggage as a louche candidate? She defines the term.
We all know precisely where we are going with today’s word. Try to be creative. it will increase your grade.
For those who have never used the word and never will I suggest an alternative they may find familiar, “slimy.”
I’m gonna’ louse this up! Sorry, wrong word.
“Louching” or “la louche” is also a French term for adding ice cold water to absinthe, typically pouring it through a sugar cube on a slotted spoon.
so my sentence of the day is “I’ll louche a glass of Pernod Fils on November 9th to toast to Trump’s victory over his louche opponent, whom he bested in a landslide.”
I thought that Louche meant attractively disreputable.
His louche behavior was, strangely attractive to the girl from Ipanema
With emphasis on Disreputable. The “bad boy” fixation of some girls. Those who find nasty attractive.
I will join you in that toast - slotted spoon, sugar cube, absinthe and all.
Her crimes are louche, her clothes are gauche.
So, if you louse it up and your favorite parasite fails off, do you have a loose louce?
And to her fawning roaches she is beyond reproach.
Perhaps more a loose louce louse
Well this is embarrassing. I spelled the word wrong in the title. The description has it correct. “Louche” is correct. A lousy louce is sad.
A solemn request of the mod to correct the spelling. Much gratitude.
Yep, specifically to the point where the oils in the absinthe begin to emulsify and make the drink go from clear green to cloudy.
After H-Dog gets in we will move from being Deplorables to Louche-ables (with the appropriate accent).
Louche—(loosh)....example: Meghan Kelly.
Loose louche Megan Kelly’s brain is stuck on sex. Her wardrobe of see through nighties is sartorial seduction. Her glam hair and cosmetic pastiche is distraction from her tongue, my God, her tongue, a venomous asp flicking tongue. Nasty louche lecher defines her every twitch.
I’m using the word in the countdown.
Great. Appreciate the affirmation.
Perhaps we could find a paint, maybe a poor shade of brown, and we could call it "LOUCHE".. Then we could paint the White Hut, Senate and other deserving buildings in Washington with our new paint to show our total discussed with our government...
:)
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