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Louche vs Ouche - What's the difference?

louche | ouche |

As a verb louche

is .

As a noun ouche is

(poetic) a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.

louche

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of questionable taste or morality; decadent.
  • * 2012', "''Upstairs Downstairs'' hosts the Kennedys and Wallis Simpson (these days, in British culture, the archetypal '''louche American)." ( The other half lives, ''The Economist , February 25th)
  • Not reputable or decent.
  • * 1888', "The aunt will refuse; she will think the whole proceeding very '''louche !" (''The Aspern Papers , Henry James)
  • Raffish, rakish, or unconventional and slightly disreputable, in an attractive manner.
  • * “Anyone inside the business can also tell you that without Carine Roitfeld’s louche sexy styling Tom Ford’s Gucci might easily have come off looking like a high-end Club Monaco.” (The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/fashion/shows/09INTRO.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)

    • Verb

    (louch)
  • (alcoholic beverages) To become cloudy when mixed with water, due to the presence of anethole. This is known as the .
    • Certain anise-flavored drinks have developed a mystique based on the exotic appearance of louching .

    See also

    * (Ouzo effect) ----

    ouche

    English

    Alternative forms

    * nouch * ouch * owch

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when valuable or set with jewels.
  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • and the horse [was] trapped in the same wyse, down to the helys, wyth many owchys , i-sette with stonys and perelys in golde, to the numbir of a thousande.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ii:
    • a Persian mitre on her hed / She wore, with crownes and owches garnished [...].
  • * 1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, Exodus XXVIII.11:
    • With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
  • * 1896 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Story of Ung’, Seven Seas :
    • There would be no pelts of the reindeer, flung down at thy cave for a gift, / Nor dole of the oily timber that strands with the Baltic drift; / No store of well-drilled needles, nor ouches of amber pale; / No new-cut tongues of the bison, nor meat of the stranded whale.