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gauche

  [gohsh]
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–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   (gōsh)   
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

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
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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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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