/luʃ/
cross-eyed; cloudy; obscure; shady; dubious; seedy; shifty
From Old French lousche, from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (“one-eyed”) ( > Old French lois). Cognate in particular with Italian losco, with whom it shares the semantic shift to describe a shady individual.
cloudiness due to a suspension of fine particles
From Old French lousche, from Latin lusca, feminine of luscus (“one-eyed”) ( > Old French lois). Cognate in particular with Italian losco, with whom it shares the semantic shift to describe a shady individual.
ladle
“Peuh ! Une demi-louche de blé noir par jour et on n'en parle plus !” — Asterix and the White Iris
Related: à la louche
A dialectal (Norman-Picard) form of Old French louce, loce, from Old Frankish *lōtija, from Proto-Germanic *hlōþþijō. Cognate with Dutch loet (“a tool to scrape or shovel”). More at loot.