Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - gauche
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Gauche
gauche
adjective (sometimes ~r; sometimes ~st) Etymology: French, literally, left Date: 1751 1. a. lacking social experience or grace; also not tactful ; crude it would be ~ to mention the subject b. crudely made or done a ~ turn of phrase 2. not planar ~ conformation of molecules Synonyms: see awkward • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
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1.
adj. 1 lacking ease or grace; socially awkward. 2 tactless. Derivatives gauchely adv. gaucheness n. Etymology: F, = left-handed, awkward ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. фр. неуклюжий, неловкий, неповоротливый 2. фр. грубоватый, неотесанный 3. фр. бестактный 4. фр. мат. наклонный ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
fr. adj. неуклюжий, неловкий Syn: boorish, maladroit, tactless, uncouth, unpolished Ant: adroit, considerate, polite, urbane ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
If you describe someone as gauche, you mean that they are awkward and uncomfortable in the company of other people. We’re all a bit gauche when we’re young... She was a rather gauche, provincial creature. = awkward ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ adj lacking confidence and experience in social situations, so that you often say or do the wrong thing (a mature, successful businesswoman, not a gauche teenager, flushing with girlish embarrassment) - gauchely adv - gaucheness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- 1751, from Fr. gauche "left" (replacing O.Fr. senestre in that sense), originally "awkward, awry," from M.Fr. gauchir "turn aside, swerve," from O.Fr. gaucher "trample, reel, walk clumsily," from Frank. *welkan. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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