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Brash vs Gauche - What's the difference?

brash | gauche |

As adjectives the difference between brash and gauche

is that brash is impetuous or rash while gauche is awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.

As a noun brash

is leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.

brash

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • impetuous or rash
    • (Grose)
  • insensitive or tactless
  • impudent or shameless

    • Noun

  • Leaf litter of small leaves and little twigs as found under a hedge.
  • A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
  • (geology) Broken and angular rock fragments underlying alluvial deposits.
    • (Lyell)
  • Broken fragments of ice.
    • (Kane)
    Derived terms
    * water brash * weaning brash

    Etymology 2

    Compare Amer. (bresk), (brusk), fragile, brittle.

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, colloquial, dated) brittle, as wood or vegetables
    • (Bartlett)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    gauche

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
  • *19th century , (1793-1860), The Spirit Court of Practice and Pretence :
  • *:Seeking by vulgar pomp and gauche display
  • *:In 'good society', to make her way
  • * 1879 , George Meredith, The Egoist ,
    • She looked a trifle gauche , it struck me; more like a country girl with the hoyden taming in her than the well-bred creature she is.
  • *1895 , H.G. Wells, The Wonderful Visit , :
  • *:"He's a trifle gauche'" said Lady Hammergallow, jumping upon the Vicar's attention. "He neither bows nor smiles. He must cultivate oddities like that. Every successful executant is more or less ' gauche ."
  • (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  • (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°

    • Synonyms

    * (lacking in social graces) graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

    Antonyms

    * (lacking in social graces) adroit

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