gauche, graceless, unpolished
(adjective) lacking social polish; ātoo gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimateā; ātheir excellent manners always made me feel gaucheā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
gauche (comparative more gauche, superlative most gauche)
Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
(mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
(chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60Ā°.
• (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky
• (lacking in social graces): adroit
• guache
Source: Wiktionary
Gauche, n. Etym: [F.]
1. Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
