0 awkward and uncomfortable with other people, especially because young and without experience: --
She had grown from a gauche teenager to a self-assured young woman.
1 behaving in a way that is offensive to other people, esp. because of not knowing what is correct or not caring about the feelings of others: --
The song mocks questionable taste in fashion, as well activities considered gauche.
Gauche put the sick little mouse into a hole of his cello and played a rhapsody.
For example, n-butane has two possible conformations, anti and gauche.
Described variously as drab, gauche, chateau-like it was closed in 1999 and converted into luxury flats.
The energy difference between gauche and anti is 0.9 kcal/mol associated with the strain energy of the gauche conformer.
In this case, the diaxial conformation is effectively prevented by its high steric strain (four gauche interactions more than the diequatorial).
Historically the term gauche quadrilateral was also used to mean a skew quadrilateral.
She was gauche in movement and in a sense ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become beautiful.
