Gauche

Definition: Gauche

Gauche

Adjective

1. Lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gauche" was first used: 1751. (references)

Etymology: Gauche \Gauche\, noun. [French expression]. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gauche

Sinistrality

Sinistrality; left, left hand, a gauche; sinister, nearside, larboard, port.

Unskillfulness

Adjective: unskillful; inexpert; bungling;Verb: awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly, slatternly; gawky.

Crosswords: Gauche

French (clumsy, gauche, gawk, gawky, graceless, left, shy, the left, ungainly, unhappy), French Canadian (left).

L' Arme à gauche (1964)

Conduite à gauche (1961)

Soigne ton gauche (1936)

Rive gauche (1931)

Sixième gauche (1990)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Amours Egales: Le Pacs, Les Homosexuels Et La Gauche (reference)

• Dans le front gauche de l'art (reference)

• Histoire de L'Extreme Gauche Trotskiste: de 1929 a Nos Jours (reference)

• La gauche en France depuis 1900 (reference)

• La gauche en voie de disparition : comment changer sans trahir? (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Maurice Ravel: Concerto En Sol Majeur/Concerto Pour La Main Gauche (reference)

• Koweit Rive Gauche (reference)

• La Nouvelle Gauche (reference)

• Paris River Gauche (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Gauche House gate, 704 Esplanade Ave., New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Programme commun de gouvernement : communistes, socialistes, radicaux de gauche, c'est le votre. Credit: Library of Congress.

Francois Mitterand vous demande de voter pour [blank], candidat de la federation de la gauche democrate et socialiste. Credit: Library of Congress.

Elections legislatives du 5 Mars 1967, Francois Mitterrand vous demande de voter pour Annie Duperrey, candidat de la Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste. Credit: Library of Congress.

Union de la gauche dans la commune, dans le pays. Credit: Library of Congress.

Le 19 mars faites gagner la gauche. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pour que la gauche gagne. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Ending with "gauche": Main-gauche.

Albanian

i patakt (clumsy, crude, indelicate, indiscreet, tactless, tasteless), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير لبق (gawky, tactless), ‏أخرق (awkward, bungling, clumsy, elephantine, gawky, impolitic, left handed, lubberly, lump, mad, maladroit, meaningless, nincompoop, oafish, ponderous, preposterous, senseless, shy, uncouth, ungainly, unhappy, wooden). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стеснителен (backward, diffident, modest, mousey, retiring, self conscious, shamefaced, sheepish, shrinking, timid, unassertive), нетактичен (clumsy, indelicate, indiscreet, maladroit, rude, tactless, tasteless, undiplomatic, unhappy, untactful). (various references)

Czech

trapný (awkward, bothersome, embarrassing, painful, vexatious, wearing), neohrabaný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, cumbersome, ham-fisted, ham-handed, hulking, inept, unwieldy, wooden), nemotorný (awkward, bumbling, clumsy, elephantine, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, oafish, ungainly, unskillful), nejapný (clumsy, crude, inane, inept). (various references)

Farsi 

مایل (Desirous, Fond, Lief, Oblique, Solicitous, Wilful), چپ دست (Soiuthpaw), ناشی (Awkward, Ill, Jackleg, Laity, Maladroit, Muff, Rube, Unperfect), کج (Askance, Askew, Awry, Crank, Crump, Devious, Indirect, Lopsided, Sidelong, Sinister, Slant, Snafu, Thwart, Wry), خام دست (Clumsy, Jackleg, Unfledged). (various references)

French

godichon, gauche (gawk, gawky), maladroit (gawky), inhabile. (various references)

German

linkisch (awkward, clumsy, fumbling, gauchely, inept). (various references)

Greek 

άκομψοσ (frampy, Hull, inelegant, slob, slouch, sloughy, ungainly), αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, squirt, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful). (various references)

Hebrew 

חסר טקט (indelicate), גלמני (awkward, clumsy). (various references)

Hungarian

félszeg (awkward, graceless, lopsided, shy, ungainly, ungraceful), esetlen (awkward, bearish, clumsy, cubbish, fumbling, gawky, graceless, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, lubberly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Indonesian

kaku (awkward, curt, numb, rigid, stark, stiff), canggung (awkward, clumsy, crass, ill mannered). (various references)

Italian

maldestro (all thumbs, awkward, clumsy, ham-fisted, heavy-handed, ill at ease, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, unhandy). (various references)

Manx

thootagh (idiotic, lubberly, namby-pamby, oafish, silly, tactless), kittagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

auchegay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem tato (tactless), desastroso (disastrous, ruinous, unchancy), acanhado (backward, demure, diffluent, hidebound, narrow, poky, poor-spirited, scary, scrimpy, shamefaced, sheep-faced, sheepish, shy, skimpy, timid). (various references)

Russian 

бестактный (clumsy, impolitic, maladroit, tactless, tasteless, undiplomatic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nezgrapan (awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, gangling, hulking, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, ungainly, unhandy, unwieldy). (various references)

Spanish

torpe del nacimiento (artless, bungling, coarse, maladroit), desmañado (clumsy, impractical, left handed, maladroit), desairado. (various references)

Swedish

tafatt (awkward, clumsy, flatfooted, gawky, heavy-handed, inept, left handed, maladroit, tag), klumpig (awkward, cloddish, Cloggy, clownish, clumsy, cumbersome, elephantine, flatfooted, heavy-handed, hulking, inelegant, inept, left handed, lumpish, uncouth, ungainly, unwieldy, wooden). (various references)

Thai

เงอะงะ (fumble, left-handed). (various references)

Turkish

patavatsız (blunt, harum scarum, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, indiscreet, out of turn, plainspoken, plump, politically incorrect, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, without tact), münasebetsiz (impertinent, improper, inapposite, incorrect, inexpedient, inopportune, malapropos, near the knuckle, unhappy, unseemly, untimely), kaba saba (clownish, coarse, common, rank, robust, robustious, rough, rude), düşüncesiz (blind, blindfold, brusque, careless, flighty, freewheeling, half-baked, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heady, ill-advised, ill-judged, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, injudicious, mindless, out of turn, rash, reckless, slapdash, tactless, thoughtless, unadvised, unmindful, unreflecting, unthinking, wanton, without tact, witless), beceriksiz (awkward, bungler, bungling, clumsy, Duff, duffer, feckless, flat-footed, fumbling, gawky, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy-handed, helpless, impractical, inapt, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert, left handed, lubber, maladroit, manque, ne'er do well, never-do-well, oaf, oafish, resourceless, rude, shiftless, slouch, unaccomplished, unhandy, unskilful, untalented). (various references)

Ukrainian

грубуватий (bluffy, blunt, clownish, gruff, inelegant, rough and ready), нетактовний (impolite, tactless, tasteless), незграбний (angular, artless, awkward, blundering, bouncing, bovine, clumsy, cubbish, cumbersome, fumbling, gangling, gawky, gnarled, graceless, ham-fisted, hulking, lob, lubberly, maladroit, oafish, shamble, splay, splayfooted, uncouth, ungainly, unskilful, wooden), неповороткий (clumsy, inert, laggard, lagger, lumpish, snail-paced, unwieldy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng về (butter-fingered, clumpish, clumsily, clumsy, heavy-handed, loutish, maladroit, rough-hewn, stern foremost). (various references)

gaucher. (various references)

gauchir. (various references)

gauche. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "gauche": gauchely, gaucheness, gauchenesses, gaucher, gaucherie, gaucheries, gauchest. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gauche" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aucbe, auch, Auchan, Auchen, auchlee, gach, gache, Gachui, galuchat, ganche, Ganchev, Garchey, gauch, Gaucher, Gauchier, gauchu, gauk, gauke, gaukr, gaute, geochem, Giech, gifucho, Giichi, Gischel, glauce, goch, goche, Goluchow, gouch, gouche, Gracchi, guache, guke, hacucho, juche, Raouche. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ache, ague, cage, chug, each, huge.

-3 letters: ace, age, cue, eau, ecu, gae, hae, hag, hue, hug, ugh.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ah, eh, ha, he, uh.

+1 letter: gaucher, gouache.

+2 letters: gauchely, gauchest, gouaches, uncharge.

+3 letters: changeful, claughted, doughface, gaucherie, outcharge, surcharge, unchanged, uncharged, uncharges.

+4 letters: choraguses, debauching, doughfaces, gaucheness, gaucheries, guacharoes, outcharged, outcharges, surcharged, surcharges, theurgical, unteaching, upreaching.

+5 letters: archegonium, changefully, chugalugged, outcheating, outreaching, relaunching, supercharge, undercharge.