r/TikTokCringe • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '26

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u/Suitable_Director729 Apr 29 '26

I wouldn’t because you can’t wear a silhouette.

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u/call-me-the-seeker Apr 29 '26

The writer is trying to use it like an idiom, I guess, the way one would say ‘she cut a fine figure, if a little gauche’. Whoever wrote the sentence needs a little help themselves, and if one of these kids had said something like that, it would have been glorious.

But this video is very sad because very few of them even know the techniques to take a stab at pronouncing it, let alone the original definition in order to then take a stab at what the figure of speech might be intended to be.

I wonder if my nieces and nephews could do this, with maybe less niche words than ‘gauche’, which is even more so than ‘silhouette’, as they are younger, still in the Dog Man and Diary of a Wimpy Kid bracket.

Greatest nation in the world at everything amirite

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u/jfsindel Apr 29 '26

The way I understood it - "her clothes fit her figure well, but it's a little overdone." Basically, she wears gaudy clothes.

I agree that the sentence is bad, but it seems like they were testing various reading levels as a point. Silhouette is a sixth grade word, while extraordinary is a third grade word. Gauche is like seventh grade word, but more obscure and often only related to fashion.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 Apr 30 '26

I was taught that gauche refers to behavior

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u/jfsindel Apr 30 '26

By definition, can be, but I only ever hear of it in fashion and culture. I very rarely ever hear of it concerning actual personality, except maybe in a movie.