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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-199/
- Published: 2020-08-12T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-09T01:09:44.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

gauche (adj) – Lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gauche?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : “Awkward, tactless,” 1751 (Chesterfield), from French gauche “left” (15th century, replacing senestre in that sense), originally “awkward, awry,” from gauchir “turn aside, swerve,” from Proto-Germanic \*wankjan (source also of Old High German wankon, Old Norse vakka “to stagger, totter”), from PIE \*weng- “to bend, curve”.

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