gauche

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lacking social polish

   too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate

2. 2
   adj

   Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.

   Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display In 'good society', to make her way

3. 3
   adj

   Skewed, not plane.

4. 4
   adj

   Having a torsion angle of 60°.

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.