Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Indifferent; apathetic.
- n. One who does not care.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant
- n. such a person
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A careless person; a trifler.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person characterized by want of care, interest, attention, or the like; an apathetic, careless, easy, inaccurate person.
Etymologies
Examples
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COLLINS: We are interested, though, in your last word, "pococurante," which we are all becoming very familiar with this morning.
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Lors des championnats les plus récents, les mots qui ont permis aux gagnants de remporter la victoire ont été pococurante, autochthonous, appoggiatura, ursprache, serrefine, guerdon et Laodicean.
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The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean.
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“I believe you are misinformed, sir,” said Jekyl dryly, and then resumed, as deftly as he could, his proper character of a pococurante.
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Archibald, though a follower of the court, and a pococurante by profession, was confused, if not affected; the dairy-maid blubbered; and Jeanie felt the tears rise spontaneously to her eyes.
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Also, just so everyone's just totally sure pococurante is NOT pronounced "Po-Cock-Your-Auntie."
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The tight pantaloons, the authoritative voice, the pococurante manner, and the broken
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And we had one of those cards for pococurante, so that's how I remembered it.
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For me, as you may have found out, I am the _pococurante_ senator, and above all things very free in saying what I think.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre
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Rake stared, and looked at him blankly; in this man who spoke to him with so subdued but so irresistible a power of command, he could scarcely recognize the gay, indolent, indulgent, pococurante Guardsman, whose most serious anxiety had been the set of a lace tie, the fashion of his hunting dress, or the choice of the gold arabesques for his smoking-slippers.
jeffazi commented on the word pococurante
adj: uninterested, indifferent, or nonchalantly detached.
December 11, 2007