| gauche | (adjective) lacking social polish | Synonyms: graceless, unpolished |
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| gaucheness | (noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity |
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| gaucherie | (noun) a socially awkward or tactless act | Synonyms: faux pas, gaffe, slip, solecism |
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| (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: rusticity |
| gaucho | (noun) a cowboy of the South American Pampas | - |
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| gaud | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gewgaw, novelty, trinket |
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| gaudery | (noun) cheap or pretentious or vain display | Synonyms: pomp |
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| gaudily | (adverb) in a tastelessly garish manner | Synonyms: garishly, tawdrily |
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| gaudiness | (noun) strident color or excessive ornamentation | Synonyms: garishness |
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| (noun) tasteless showiness | Synonyms: brashness, flashiness, garishness, glitz, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness |
| gaudy | (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, jazzy, showy, sporty |
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| (adjective) tastelessly showy | Synonyms: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy |
| (noun) (Britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held at a college | - |
| gauffer | (noun) an ornamental frill made by pressing pleats | Synonyms: goffer |
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| (noun) an iron used to press pleats and ridges | Synonyms: gauffering iron, goffer, goffering iron |
| (verb) make wavy with a heated goffering iron | Synonyms: goffer |
| gauge | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. | Synonyms: gage |
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| (noun) the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train | - |
| (noun) the thickness of wire | - |
| (noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, caliber, calibre |
| (noun) accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared | Synonyms: standard of measurement |
| (verb) measure precisely and against a standard | - |
| (verb) adapt to a specified measurement | - |
| (verb) mix in specific proportions | - |
| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, guess, judge |
| (verb) determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation | - |
| (verb) rub to a uniform size | - |
| gaumless | (adjective) (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality | Synonyms: gormless |
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| gaunt | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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| gauntlet | (noun) a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim | Synonyms: gantlet |
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| (noun) a glove of armored leather; protects the hand | Synonyms: gantlet, metal glove |
| (noun) a glove with long sleeve | Synonyms: gantlet |
| (noun) to offer or accept a challenge | Synonyms: gantlet |
| gauntleted | (adjective) wearing a protective glove | - |
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| gauntness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: boniness, bonyness, emaciation, maceration |
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| gauntry | (noun) a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc. | Synonyms: gantry |
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| gaur | (noun) wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India | Synonyms: Bibos gaurus |
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| gauss | (noun) a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter | - |
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| gaussmeter | (noun) a meter to compare strengths of magnetic fields | Synonyms: magnetometer |
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| gauze | (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: netting, veiling |
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| (noun) (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings | Synonyms: gauze bandage |
| gauzy | (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous, vapourous |
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