Word of the Day: Gaucherie

Gaucherie \goh-shuh-REE\ noun

1.  A socially awkward or tactless act.
2.  Lack of tact; boorishness; awkwardness.

Origin: Gaucherie comes from the French, from gauche, "lefthanded; awkward," from Old French, from gauchir, "to turn aside, to swerve, to walk clumsily."