UK /ˌpəʊ.kəʊ.kjʊəˈɹæn.ti/ · US /ˌpoʊ.koʊ.kjuːˈɹɑːn.ti/
Etymology Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).
1
Apathetic, indifferent or nonchalant.
The Treasury was entrusted to the pococurante capacity of Grafton, the Exchequer to the erratic genius of Charles Townshend.1909, Ward A. W., Prothero G. W., Leathes Stanley K.C.B., Lord Acton, The Cambridge Modern History, volume VI, page 20:
pococurante
noun
Etymology Borrowed from French pococurante, itself - from Pococurante, a nonchalant Venetian senator in Candide, coined by Voltaire based on Italian poco (“little”) + curante (“caring”).