was wotd|2006|April|20
English

Etymology
From French gauche#French|gauche �left, awkward�.

Pronunciation
g�sh, /g@US/
IPA|/g���/
audio|en-us-gauche.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-���|-���

Adjective
en-adj

1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling

#:Quotations:
#:*"Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display" — Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)

1. context|mathematics|archaic skewed, not plane

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

Antonyms
(lacking in social graces): adroit

Translations
trans-top|awkward, bumbling
Chinese: �魯� (cūl�de)
French: gauche#French|gauche
German: unbeholfen, linkisch
trans-mid
Ido: ne-habila
Spanish: torpe
Russian: не�кл�жий
trans-bottom

French

Etymology
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|/go�/
audio|Fr-Gauche-fr-Paris.ogg|Audio (FR)

Antonyms
droit

Adjective
gauche

1. awkward, gauche#English|gauche
2. left

Noun
gauche f

1. the left, the left-hand side

Derived terms
gauchard

Category:French adjectives

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