Definition of GAUCHE

gauche

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • lacking social polish
    • "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"
    • "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

Adj

  • Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
  • Skewed, not plane.
  • Describing a torsion angle of 60°.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Antonyms

adroit

Scrabble Score: 12

gauche is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
gauche is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gauche is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

gauche is a valid Words With Friends word