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Gauche

//ɡəʊʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.

    "Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display In 'good society', to make her way"

  2. 2
    Skewed, not plane. archaic
  3. 3
    Having a torsion angle of 60°. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking social polish wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish *walkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.

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