I personally like 'aloof', coming from the Dutch word loef which means windward. The devil to pay is another cool one. From Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin se

I personally like 'aloof', coming from the Dutch word loef which means windward. The devil to pay is another cool one. From Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin series (great books by the way): ""'Why, the devil, do you see,’ said Jack, ‘is the seam between the deck-planking and the timbers, and we call it the devil, because it is the devil for the caulkers to come at: in full we say the devil to pay and no pitch hot; and what we mean is, that there is something hell-fire difficult to be done – must be done – and nothing to do it with. It is a figure.’""