gauche

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They had begun at once to employ upon him the oldest arts known to woman, and he was not flustered or "gauche"--a word Winona had lately learned.

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  1. adjective Lacking social polish; tactless.

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  • Moira Malley was exceedingly nervous and gauche, and, owing to their united fumbling, the First Act was a fiasco. —  Death At The Opera - Gladys Mitchell - Mrs Bradley 05: 1934
  • Let me just say that there's no better way to spend a random Thursday than trying to sort our your droit turns from your gauche, and watching an urban European confront a drive-through ATM: —  nancynall.com
  • Pour la gauche, cette mesure n'aura pas d'impact sur le coût de la vie et elle coûtera —  Antagoniste.net
  • (16 November 2006) - The fastest growing sector of the American wine market, boxed wine is starting to shake off its stigma as the gauche alternative to bottles. —  Cool Hunting
  • As France's star intello de gauche, could Mr Lévy write "a nice article" endorsing him? —  IntelliBriefs
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French, awkward, lefthanded, from Old French, from gauchir, to turn aside, walk clumsily, of Germanic origin.

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  1. French, left (hand, etc.), awkward, clumsy, prob. from Old French *gauc, *galc (later English dial. gaulic-hand, the left hand, gallic-handed, gauk-handed, left-handed; cf. Walloon frère wauquier, step-brother, literally ‘left-brother’), prob. from Old High German welc, welch, soft, languid, week, German welk, withered, faded, languid, etc.: see welk. So in other instances the left hand is named from its relative weakness: see left. The Spanish gaucho, slanting, seems to be derived from the F. word.
 

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