Gaucherie

Definitions: Gaucherie

Gaucherie

Noun

1. The quality of being rustic or gauche.

2. A socially awkward or tactless act.

Date "gaucherie" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Etymology: Gaucherie \Gauche`rie"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Gaucherie (3 syl., g hard). Things not comme il faut; behaviour not according to the received forms of society; awkward and untoward ways. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gaucherie

Synonyms: faux pas (n), gaffe (n), rusticity (n), slip (n), solecism (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Unskillfulness	Blunder; (mistake); etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise; botch, botchery; bad job, sad work.
Vulgarity	Noun: vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding; (discourtesy).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gaucherie

Non-English Usage: "Gaucherie" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (awkwardness, clumsiness, self consciousness).

"Gaucherie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gaucherie" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Language		Translations for "gaucherie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		nemotornost (clumsiness), nejapnost (crudity, ineptitude, ineptness). (various references)

German		Taktlosigkeit (indelicacy, indiscretion, maladroitness, tactlessness). (various references)

Greek		αδεξιότητα (awkwardness, clumsiness, helplessness, inaptitude, inaptitudeness, loutishness, muff, sloughiness, ungainliness, unhandiness, unskillfulness). (various references)

Hungarian		tapintatlanság (blundering, brashness, gaffe, imprudence, indelicacy, indiscretion), félszegség (provincialism, ungracefulness), esetlenség (clumsiness, gawkiness, left-handedness, ungracefulness). (various references)

Italian		goffaggine (awkwardness, clumsiness, lubberliness, uncouthness). (various references)

Pig Latin		aucheriegay

Romanian		stângãcie (awkwardness, clumsiness, left-handedness, lubberliness, lumpishness, maladroitness, ungainliness, unhandiness). (various references)

Thai		ความเปิ่นเชย. (various references)

Turkish		terbiyesizlik (back chat, bad manners, coarseness, disorderliness, ill breeding, immodesty, immorality, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, misbehavior, misbehaviour, ribaldry, rudeness, vulgarism), pot kırma (dropping a brick, gaffe, making a blunder), patavatsızlık (bluntness, indiscretion, tactlessness), kaba davranış (impolite behaviour, incivility, unmannerly behaviour), beceriksizlik (awkwardness, bungle, clumsiness, fecklessness, foozle, inaptitude, incompetence, inefficacy, ineptitude, ineptness, lubberliness, muff, rudeness, unhandiness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gaucherie": gaucheries. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gaucherie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Auchenree, Gaucelin, Gaucher, gauchery, gaughain. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-r-u"
	-2 letters: gaucher.
	-3 letters: achier, cagier, cahier, charge, curagh, curiae, euchre, gauche, hegari, hegira.
	-4 letters: aerie, agree, areic, argue, auger, aurei, auric, cager, ceria, chair, chare, cheer, cigar, curia, curie, eager, eagre, erica, gerah, grace, huger, ragee, reach, ruche, rugae, uraei, ureic.
	-5 letters: ache, acre, agee, ager, ague, arch, cage, care, cere, char, chia, chug, cire, crag, cure, each, eche, ecru, eger, gaur, gear, ghee, gree, grue, guar, hair, hare, hear, heir, here, hire, huge, huic, race, rage, ragi, rhea, rice, rich, ruga, urea, urge, uric.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-r-u"
	+1 letter: gaucheries.
	+4 letters: clearinghouse.
	+5 letters: braunschweiger, clearinghouses, underachieving.
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