Cafard

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Depression; melancholy.

    "That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump."

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melancholy

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"That's the worst trouble with the soldiers in the trenches — nothing to do. It gives them the cafards, the black butterflies, the blue devils, the jimjams, the hump."

Etymology

From French cafard.

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