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GAUCHERIE

Dictionary entry overview: What does gaucherie mean?

• GAUCHERIE (noun)
The noun GAUCHERIE has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being rustic or gauche
2. a socially awkward or tactless act

Familiarity information: GAUCHERIE used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GAUCHERIE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being rustic or gauche

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gaucherie; rusticity

Hypernyms ("gaucherie" is a kind of...):

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A socially awkward or tactless act

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

faux pas; gaffe; slip; solecism; gaucherie

Hypernyms ("gaucherie" is a kind of...):

bloomer; blooper; blunder; boner; boo-boo; botch; bungle; flub; foul-up; fuckup; pratfall (an embarrassing mistake)

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