From a French game show -- don't know how I missed it lo these many years:
une cosse - a pod (as for peas); which led to
avoir la cosse - feel lazy
(an idiom my dictionary lists as "dated", but I think I have the age and sarcasm to pull it off, eh what?
)
Just now, same show, different day -- though I can see having missed this one:
une génisse - a heifer
Breaking the rules here, as this is not a foreign language for me, but just a
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moment
(from a film review of Breakfast at Tiffany's):
whilom - former, erstwhile, having once been
(I imagine this will be one of those that, having encountered it, I now see everywhere)