Gauche

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Antonyms 1.3.3 Translations 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Antonyms 2.3 Adjective 2.4 Noun 2.4.1 Derived terms

English

Etymology

From French gauche ‘left, awkward’.

Pronunciation

• gōsh, /g@US/
• IPA: /gəʊʃ/
• Image:Loudspeaker.png Audio (US)^{?, file}

Adjective

Positive gauche

Comparative more gauche

Superlative most gauche

1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling

   Quotations:

   • "Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display" — Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)

2. (Mathematics, archaic) skewed, not plane

Synonyms

• (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished

Antonyms

• (lacking in social graces): adroit

Translations

awkward, bumbling

Chinese: 粗魯的 (cūlǔde) French: gauche German: unbeholfen, linkisch

Ido : ne-habila Spanish: torpe Russian: неуклюжий

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French

From gauchir ‘warp, distort’, a conflation of Old French gauchier ‘tread’ (from Old Frankish *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir ‘deviate’ (from Old Frankish *wenkjan ‘sway, falter’). ‘Gauche’ replaced the original word for left, senestre, in the sixteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /goʃ/
• Image:Loudspeaker.png Audio (FR)^{?, file}

Antonyms

• droit

Adjective

gauche

1. awkward, gauche
2. left

Noun

gauche f

1. the left, the left-hand side

Derived terms

• gauchardet:gauche

el:gauche fr:gauche id:gauche it:gauche hu:gauche ja:gauche zh:gauche