different between gauche vs loutish
gauche
English
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 *walkan? (“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.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /????/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o??/
- (chemistry sense only) IPA(key): /?a??/, /?o??/
- Rhymes: -???
Adjective
gauche (comparative more gauche, superlative most gauche)
- Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
- 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, The Egoist, chapter XLVI
- 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.G. Wells, The Wonderful Visit, Chapter 18:
- "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."
- 1836, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, The Outcast and Other Poems, "The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence". page 102
- (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
- (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.
Synonyms
- (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky
Antonyms
- (lacking in social graces): adroit
Translations
Anagrams
- guache
French
Etymology
From gauchir (“warp, distort”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?o?/
Adjective
gauche (plural gauches)
- left
- awkward, gawky
- clumsy
Noun
gauche f (plural gauches)
- the left, the left-hand side
gauche m (plural gauches)
- (boxing) a left-hander, a southpaw
Antonyms
- (left): droite
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gauche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
gauche f (plural gauches)
- (Jersey) left
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loutish
English
Etymology
lout +? -ish
Adjective
loutish
- Resembling a lout.
Synonyms
- yobbish
- hoonish
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