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GAUCHERIE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A socially awkward or tactless act
Synonyms:
faux pas; gaffe; gaucherie; slip; solecism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gaucherie" is a kind of...):
bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being rustic or gauche
Synonyms:
gaucherie; rusticity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("gaucherie" is a kind of...):
awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))
