Pococurante (5 syl.).
Insouciant, devil-may-care, easy-go-lucky. As the “Pococurante Guardsman” (the imperturbable and impassive …). Also used for one who in argument leaves the main gist and rides off on some minor and indifferent point.
Insouciant, devil-may-care, easy-go-lucky. As the “Pococurante Guardsman” (the imperturbable and impassive …). Also used for one who in argument leaves the main gist and rides off on some minor and indifferent point.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.