gauchir

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Middle French gauchir, from Old French gauchir, gauchier, from Frankish *wenkijan and *walkijan, *walkan. By surface analysis, gauche +‎ -ir. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡo.ʃiʁ/ === Verb === gauchir (intransitive) to dodge (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively (ambitransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views ==== Conjugation ==== This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-. === Further reading === “gauchir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012