cafard

British  

/ kafar /

noun

1. a feeling of severe depression

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Etymology

Origin of cafard

C20: from French, literally: cockroach, hypocrite

Example Sentences

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

Max had heard men say jokingly or solemnly of each other, "He has the cafard."

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

He had "cafard," for he was due to leave the hospital to-morrow and go up before the military authorities, for "prolongation."

From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John

Mother was to be shunted imperceptibly from cafard.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice