gaucher

• gauchar, gochar

gaucher (plural gauchers)

1. (India) Common land for grazing cattle.
   • 1997, Paul Robbins, Negotiating Ecology, page 213:

     They report that the meager browse of gauchers is often adequate during the rainy season. Where gauchers are poor or nonexistent, fodder feeding is an option.

   • 2002, Ecological Study of Thol Lake Wildlife (Bird) Sanctuary (page 13)

     The livestock grazes in fallow lands and gauchers (common lands).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gaucher

1. comparative form of gauche: more gauche

From gauche +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃe/

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gaucher (feminine gauchère, masculine plural gauchers, feminine plural gauchères)

1. left-handed

   Coordinate term: droitier

   Marie est gauchère.

   Marie is left-handed.

   Parfois c'est très difficile de trouver des ciseaux pour gauchers.

   Sometimes it's very difficult to find left-handed scissors.

2. left-footed

   Coordinate term: droitier

• Haitian Creole: goche

gaucher m (plural gauchers, feminine gauchère)

1. a left-handed or left-footed person; a southpaw

   Coordinate terms: droitier, ambidextre

• Not to be confused with gauchiste.

• “gaucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• gâcheur