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°
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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

Gauche Sentence Examples

  • So how do you let guests know where you registered without seeming gauche?

  • It would be slightly gauche to arrive at a wake with an infant clad in a ruffled cupcake pink dress.

  • While it's appropriate to use it in Québec, if you're visiting Haiti, Belgium or parts of Africa that still speak French, they'll find your response très gauche, (very crude) as will people in France.

  • Fischer was reclusive, socially gauche and a slave to chess, tho his other interests included expensive suits, money and rock.

  • It should avoid sentimentality, the awkward, gauche handling of emotion.

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Words Starting With

GGAGAU

Words Ending With

EHECHE

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With G6 Letter Words Ending With E