English
gauche
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ɡəʊʃ/
  • (America) IPA: /ɡoʊʃ/
    (chemistry sense only) IPA: /ɡaʊʃ/, /ɡoʊʃ/
Adjective

gauche

  1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
    • 1836, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Outcast and Other Poems, "The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence". [https://books.google.com/books?id=jAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA102&dq=%22Seeking+by+vulgar+pomp+and+gauche+display+In+%27good+society%27,+to+make+her+way%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8t62o8ZLdAhU0HjQIHQRiBZMQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Seeking%20by%20vulgar%20pomp%20and%20gauche%20display%20In%20'good%20society'%2C%20to%20make%20her%20way%22&f=false page 102]
      Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
      In 'good society', to make her way
    • 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, chapter XLVI
      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.
    • 1895, H.G. Wells, The Wonderful Visit, Chapter 18:
      "He's a trifle gauche" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less gauche."
  2. (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  3. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
Synonyms Antonyms
  • (lacking in social graces) adroit
Translations

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