Gauche
WordNet
adjective
(1) Lacking social polish
"Too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"
"Their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
- "Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display" — Samuel Griswold (1793-1860)
- Skewed, not plane.
- Describing a torsion angle of 60°
Etymology
From , a conflation of (from }, cognate with English ) + (from }). Gauche replaced the original word for left, , in the sixteenth century.