gauche, graceless, unpolished
(adjective) lacking social polish; “too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate”; “their excellent manners always made me feel gauche”
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 60°.
• (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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
