Gauche Definition
gōsh
adjective
gauchest
Lacking grace, esp. social grace; awkward; tactless.
Webster's New World
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°
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Adjective
Base Form:
gauche
Superlative:
gauchestOrigin of Gauche
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Borrowing from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish welkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *welk- (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”), Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.
From Wiktionary
French awkward, lefthanded from Old French from gauchir to turn aside, walk clumsily of Germanic origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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