| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| farouche |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fa·rouche |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  fä-r sh |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Fierce; wild: an artist who was farouche even in everyday life. 2. Exhibiting withdrawn temperament and shyness coupled with an air of cranky, often sullen fey charm: “small, farouche poems illustrated with doodles, a cross between Ogden Nash and Blake” (Rosemary Dinnage). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French faroche, alteration of forasche, from Late Latin for sticus, belonging outside, from Latin fors, out of doors. See foreign.
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