cafard
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cafard
C20: from French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite
Example Sentences
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There is le cafard, too, the blues that lonely, tired women get the world over after a long day's work.
From Time Magazine Archive
"J'ai le cafard," announces the soldat and he is amok with a little beetle running round and round in his brains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yesterday, without knowing why, I was a little sad: what soldiers call avoir le cafard.
From Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 by André Chevrillon
You've got cafard, and we must make sure you have the best thing done for you.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
God might not be there, but Pity had come back; Jean Liotard no longer had "cafard."
From Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
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