insouciant

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I wish we had space to go into the treasury of slang, from pants rabbit, insouciant American army slang for a ` body louse, 'to parp, invented by Enid Blyton as the voice of Noddy's car, a word that has caught on.

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  1. adjective Marked by blithe unconcern; nonchalant.

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  • Mark Twain's fun was light - hearted and insouciant, his pathos genuine and profound. —  Mark Twain
  • I wish we had space to go into the treasury of slang, from pants rabbit, insouciant American army slang for a ` body louse, 'to parp, invented by Enid Blyton as the voice of Noddy's car, a word that has caught on. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
  • Old University family, he recalled, steeped in its lore, early destined for a scholarly career. —  The Day of Their Return
  • They had been the last true rulers of the Bright Empire-proud, insouciant, cruel. —  The Sailor On The Seas of Fate
  • "He's not there, Domne." —  A Canticle for Leibowitz
 

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  1. French : in-, not (from Old French; see in-1) + souciant, present participle of soucier, to trouble (from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *sollicītāre, alteration of Latin sollicitāre, to vex; see solicit).

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  1. from French insouciant, careless, heedless, from in- privative + souciant, present participle of soucier, care, from souci, care.
 

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