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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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yokel
English
Etymology
1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob; alternatively, from dialectal English yokel (“woodpecker”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?j??.k?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?jo?.k?l/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
Noun
yokel (plural yokels)
- (derogatory) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.
- Synonyms: boor, bumpkin, country bumpkin, joskin, hillbilly, hick, peasant, provincial, rube, rustic, yahoo
- 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 81,[1]
- “ […] my opinion at once is […] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel?eh, Duff?”
- “Certainly not,” replied Duff.
- “And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.
- 1895, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, New York: Appleton, Chapter 8, p. 88,[2]
- He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
- 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 6, p. 119,[3]
- I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.
- 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Chapter 8.6, p. 560,[4]
- ‘You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world?or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world?and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. […] ’
Derived terms
- yokelry
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Kolye, Lokey, koley, kyloe
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