gaffe
Meaning of gaffe
noun
- an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
in my first few months at work I made some real gaffes
his comments are a major diplomatic gaffe
early 20th century: from French, literally ‘boathook’ (from Provençal gaf : see gaff1), used colloquially to mean ‘blunder’.
Information about gaffe
- It is a name.
- The plural form of gaffe is: gaffes.
- Languages in which gaffe is used:
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Hyphenation of gaffe
gaffe
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- gaffe is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
gaffe synonyms
Meaning faux pas:
Meaning a stupid or careless mistake:
Meaning an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong:
Meaning a mistake:
Meaning behaviour or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgement:
Meaning failure to observe standards of honesty or modesty; improper behaviour or character:
Meaning an act of miscalculating; an error or misjudgement:
Meaning a very stupid or glaring mistake, especially an amusing one:
Meaning an erection of the penis:
Meaning a bungled task:
Meaning a mistake made in speaking or playing music, or by an actor in delivering their lines:
Meaning a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test:
Meaning an embarrassing mistake:
Meaning a plant that produces flowers at a specified time:
Meaning an absurd or embarrassing blunder:
Meaning an embarrassing error:
Meaning a short low-pitched noise emitted by an electronic device:
Meaning a person or thing that floats:
Translation of gaffe
Words that rhyme with gaffe
neaffe, piaffe, Jaffe, agraffe, giraffe, raffe, Wagstaffe, Luftwaffe, Vergeltungswaffe
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