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gauche

/ɡəʊʃ//ɡoʊʃ/

gauche adjective: awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.

Adjective

gauche (comparative more gauche or gaucher, superlative most gauche or gauchest)

  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 way1836, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Outcast and Other Poems, The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence, page 102
    • She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.1879, George Meredith, “chapter XLVI”, in The Egoist
  2. (archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  3. (not comparable) Having a torsion angle of 60°.

gauche meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

gauche in Tamil

இடது, இடதுபுறம், இடதுபக்கம், திறமையற்ற

gauche in Urdu

بےڈھب, بےسلیقہ, بےتکا, ناشائستہ

gauche in Malayalam

inelegant, awkward, gawky
അകുശലമായ, അദക്ഷമായ, നെെപുണ്യമില്ലാത്ത, ജഡമായ, മന്ദമായ, കെെമിടുക്കില്ലാത്ത

gauche in Kannada

ಸಮಯ ಜ್ಞಾನವಿಲ್ಲದ, ನಯನಾಜೂಕು ಅರಿಯದ, ಒಡ್ಡು, ಒರಟು, ಗೊಡ್ಡು, ವ್ಯವಹಾರ ಜ್ಞಾನವಿಲ್ಲದ

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Forms of gauche

comparativemore gauche
comparativegaucher
superlativemost gauche
superlativegauchest

Origin of gauche

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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Phrases with gauche

Words that rhyme with gauche

Questions about gauche

What does gauche mean?
Gauche means awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
What is gauche in Tamil?
Gauche in Tamil is இடது, இடதுபுறம், இடதுபக்கம். See Gauche meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gauche?
Gauche is an adjective.
How do you pronounce gauche?
Gauche is pronounced /ɡəʊʃ/ (UK).

Words near gauche in the dictionary

  1. Gauberts
  2. gauch
  3. gauchar
  4. Gauchard
  5. gauchars
  6. gauche
  7. gauche caviar
  8. gauche effect
  9. gauche effects
  10. gauched
  11. gauchely

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gauche (page history and authors); gauche (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gauche (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gauche (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); gauche (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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