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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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Word Origin & History

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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