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gauche

–adjective

lacking social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkward; crude; tactless: Their exquisite manners always make me feel gauche.

[Origin: 1745–55; < F: awkward, left; MF, deriv. of gauchir to turn, veer < Gmc

]

—Related forms

gauchely, adverb

gaucheness, noun

—Synonyms inept, clumsy, maladroit; coarse, gross, uncouth.

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gauche Audio Help (gōsh) Pronunciation Key
adj. Lacking social polish; tactless.

[French, awkward, lefthanded, from Old French, from gauchir, to turn aside, walk clumsily, of Germanic origin.]

gauche'ly adv., gauche'ness n.

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gauche

"awkward, tactless," 1751, from Fr. gauche "left" (replacing O.Fr. senestre in that sense), originally "awkward, awry," from M.Fr. gauchir "turn aside, swerve," from O.Fr. gaucher "trample, reel, walk clumsily," from Frank. *welkan "to full" (cf. O.H.G. wankon, O.N. vakka "to stagger, totter").

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gauche
adjective
lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

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gauche [gəuʃ] adjective

awkward and clumsy
Example: a gauche young woman

Arabic:	أخْرَق، غَيْر لَبِق
Chinese (Simplified):	笨拙的
Chinese (Traditional):	笨拙的
Czech:	nemotorný
Danish:	klodset; kejtet
Dutch:	onbeholpen
Estonian:	kohmakas, kohmetu
Finnish:	kömpelö
French:	gauche
German:	linkisch
Greek:	αδέξιος
Hungarian:	félszeg
Icelandic:	klaufalegur
Indonesian:	kikuk
Italian:	goffo

Japanese:	不器用な
Korean:	서투른
Latvian:	neveikls; netaktisks
Lithuanian:	netašytas, nerangus
Norwegian:	keitet, klosset
Polish:	niezręczny
Portuguese (Brazil):	desajeitado
Portuguese (Portugal):	desajeitado
Romanian:	stângaci
Russian:	неуклюжий
Slovak:	nemotorný
Slovenian:	neroden
Spanish:	torpe, desmañado
Swedish:	klumpig, tafatt
Turkish:	beceriksiz, savruk