lusco-fusco
Language: Portuguese · [ˌluʃkuˈfuʃku] · Pronunciation: loosh-koo-FOOSH-koo
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Meaning
the half-light between day and night — twilight
The story
Lusco once meant squinting and fusco means dark: together they rhyme their way into the half-hour when the light is going and the lamps are not yet on. English kept an old Scots word for it, the gloaming.
The four rounds
- Which language is it from?
- Portuguese
- How does it sound to native ears?
- Gentle and a little poetic
- Where would you hear it?
- Headlights just going on
- What does it mean?
- The dim light as day goes
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