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gauche
[gohsh]
–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
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.
inept, clumsy, maladroit; coarse, gross, uncouth.
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Gauche
Gauche\, n. [F.]1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy. 2. (Geom.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : gauche
Spanish:
torpe, desmañado,
German:
linkisch,
Japanese:
不器用な
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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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