Gauche Definition

gōsh
adjective
gauchest
Lacking grace, esp. social grace; awkward; tactless.
Webster's New World

(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.

Wiktionary
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Gauche

Adjective

Base Form:
gauche
Superlative:
gauchest

Origin of Gauche

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

    From Wiktionary

  • French awkward, lefthanded from Old French from gauchir to turn aside, walk clumsily of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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