The definition of gauche is someone who is socially clumsy or tactless.
(adjective)An example of gauche is a guest at a fancy dinner party who arrives wearing jeans and flip flops.
See gauche in Webster's New World College Dictionary
adjective
Origin: Fr < MFr gauchir, to become crooked, warped, ult. < Frank *wankjan, to totter (akin to Ger wanken), confused with *walken, to beat, full (cloth)
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adjective
Origin:
Origin: French, awkward, lefthanded
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from gauchir, to turn aside, walk clumsily
Origin: , of Germanic origin
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