gaffe

[ gaf ]

SEE DEFINITION OF gaffe

nounmistake, goof

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correction

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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR GAFFE

She has been so charming to me that if I make a gaffe she must forgive me.

Think what his position would have been if any member of his Embassy had made a "gaffe."

WORD ORIGIN

"blunder," 1909, perhaps from French gaffe "clumsy remark," originally "boat hook," from Middle French gaffe (15c.), from Old Provençal gaf, probably from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *gafa. Sense connection is obscure; the gaff was used to land big fish. Or it may derive from British slang gaff "to cheat, trick" (1893); or gaff "criticism" (1896), from Scottish dialect sense of "loud, rude talk" (see gaff (n.2)).