cafard

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cafard

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Borrowed from French cafard.

noun cafards

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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"cafard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/cafard. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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"cafard." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/cafard.

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@misc{cafard_2026,
  title = {cafard},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cafard},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}