Usually means: Lacking social grace; awkward, unsophisticated.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gauche: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gauche: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gauche: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gauche: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gauche: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gauche, gauche: Wordnik
  7. gauche: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gauche: Wiktionary
  9. gauche: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gauche: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gauche: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gauche, gauche: Dictionary.com
  13. gauche: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gauche: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gauche (Scheme implementation), Gauche (chemistry), Gauche: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gauche: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gauche: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gauche: Rhymezone
  19. Gauche, gauche, gauche (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Gauche: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gauche: Free Dictionary
  22. gauche: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gauche: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. gauche: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gauche: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gauche: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Liquid Crystal (No longer online)

(Note: See gauchely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gauche)

adjective:  Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
adjective:  (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
adjective:  (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.

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