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語源

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”), 古期英語 wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡəʊʃ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɡoʊʃ/

  (chemistry sense only) IPA: /ɡaʊʃ/, /ɡoʊʃ/

• 韻: -əʊʃ

形容詞

gauche (comparative more gauche or gaucher, superlative most gauche or gauchest)

1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling; apt to make gaffes.
   • 1836, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Outcast and Other Poems‎, The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence, page 102:

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

   • 1879, George Meredith, “chapter XLVI”, in The Egoist:

     She looked a trifle gauche, it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.

   • 1895, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 18”, in The Wonderful Visit (Macmillan’s Colonial Library), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     "He's a trifle gauche" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less gauche."

   • 2022 July 25, Leah Dolan, “New documentary unearths troubling links between Victoria’s Secret and Jeffrey Epstein”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 30 August 2022:

     What was once a multi-million-dollar fantasy of womanhood – exclusively svelte, athletic models in lace-trimmed thongs or diamante push-up bras, each framed by a pair of 12-foot-high angel wings – quickly became a parody so gauche it’s hard to imagine it was ever taken seriously.

2. (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
3. (chemistry, not comparable) Having a torsion angle of 60°.

同意語

• (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “lacking in social graces”): adroit

派生語

関連する語

Further reading

• “gauche”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “gauche”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

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