English translation of "gochemente" - "clumsily; unskilfully"

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164 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Portuguese > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	gochemente
Context:	Inspirada pelos poemas que Edgar Poe enatão compunha e lhe enviava, Isabel começou, por...
Keywords:	...essa altura, a garatujar també, gochemente alguns versos...Novie writer, right out of high school. "Awkwardly?"

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164 months ago

Maria de Fátima Bizarro wrote:

clumsily; unskilfully

My comment:

Word not mentioned in any European or Brazilian Portuguese dictionary, but used by Eça de Queiroz in "Os Maias".

My references:

Sim, ela tinha razão... Era uma cobardia, era uma indignidade, continuar ali, gochemente, dissimulado na sombra, a balbuciar coisas mesquinhas. Quis ser claro, quis ser forte.

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164 months ago

airmailrpl wrote:

gauche.. graceless.. clumsy.. ungainly.. gawky

My comment:

gauche
graceless
clumsy
ungainly
gawky

My references:

Read the ebook Studies in Portuguese literature by Aubrey F. G. ...
www.ebooksread.com/.../page-15-studies-in-portuguese-literat...
only that his style often reads like translated French (and what are we to say to the brazen use of such words as goche {gauche), gochemente, bonhomia /), but ...

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