Also Sc. farouchie. [Fr. farouche, of unknown origin; the received connexion with L. ferōcem cruel is untenable.] Sullen, shy and repellent in manner.
1765. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1857), IV. 412. The King is still much handsomer than his pictures, and has great sweetness in his countenance, instead of that farouche look which they give him.
1814. Byron, in Moore, Life & Lett. (1832), III. 56. It is too farouche; but, truth to say, my satires are not very playful.
1855. Mrs. Gaskell, North & S., xliv. She has been very farouche with me for a long time; and is only just beginning to thaw a little from her Zenobia ways.
1880. Ouida, Moths, I. ix. 298. She is a little farouche, you know, my poor darling.
